No sof-firmware package after installing

[speckitor]

I have an MSI Katana gf76 laptop, I tested installing arch via archinstall with pipewire and pulseaudio and there was no sof-firmware package auto installed, so I had no sound. Is it ok?

[Torxed]

That is currently the expected behavior.
We don't have anyway to map hardware <--> packages at the moment, so any custom firmware needed will have to be installed post-installation.

Apologize for the inconvenience, I'll close this ticket since I can't see a way to solve this as there's no feasible way to detect required hardware packages.

[speckitor]

What do you think about adding question like "Do you want to install sof-firmware?" after selecting pipewire or pulseaudio.

[Torxed]

Personally I don't have a preference other than feeling iffy about adding more menu options that only satisfies some people, because it adds maintaining of code/packages we need to keep track of. There's potentially other packages that would be required to add as well, like libffado for instance.

How popular/required is sof-firmware?
Perhaps this could be a reason to?

[codefiles]

This was addressed in 128db1c.

The code has been rearranged since then but it looks to still be active to me.

archinstall/archinstall/lib/models/audio_configuration.py

Lines 45 to 46 in fbdb3c4

	if SysInfo.requires_sof_fw():
	installation.add_additional_packages('sof-firmware')

@speckitor
Provide a log?