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[Joseph Yasi <joe.yasi@xxxxxxxxx>]

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1496163 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1496163

** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 1496163
   i915 firmware is not copied to initrd

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Title:
  update-initramfs doesn't copy symlinked firmware files

Status in initramfs-tools package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  In /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hook-functions, the firmware is copied to the initramfs using:
  cp -a "$firmware" "$target_dir"

  For symlinked firmware such as /lib/firmware/i915/skl_dmc_ver1.bin for
  Intel Skylake, this results in a copy of the symlink instead of the
  firmware file. update-initramfs then deletes the broken symlink before
  packaging.

  This needs to be replaced with a cp command that dereferences symlinks such as:
  cp -prL "$firmware" "$target_dir"

  I ran into this on vivid, but it is in wily as well.

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