"firmware: failed to load" logs seen during boot

Affected images versions

Type	Arch	v2021	v2022	v2023dev3
minimal/fixedfunction	amd64
minimal/fixedfunction	armhf		20220309.0316 Ostree	20211124.1116 ostree
minimal/fixedfunction	arm64
target/hmi	amd64
target/hmi	armhf		v2022.0rc1	20220316.0416
target/hmi	arm64
basesdk	amd64
sdk	amd64
nfs	amd64
nfs	armhf
nfs	arm64
lxc	amd64
lxc	armhf
lxc	arm64
image-builder
package-source-builder

Unaffected images versions

• v2021

Steps to reproduce

Generate and boot an OSTree image for armhf

Expected result

"firmware: failed to load" logs should not observed

Actual result

Starting kernel ...

[    3.965274] imx-sdma 20ec000.sdma: firmware: failed to load imx/sdma/sdma-imx6q.bin (-2)
[    3.973505] firmware_class: See https://wiki.debian.org/Firmware for information about missing firmware
[    5.936201] mdio_bus 2188000.ethernet-1: ethernet-phy has invalid PHY address
e2fsck 1.46.2 (28-Feb-2021)
system: recovering journal
Setting free inodes count to 153293 (was 153344)
Setting free blocks count to 540989 (was 541064)
system: clean, 14371/167664 files, 128932/669921 blocks
init=/ostree/boot.1/apertis/c39a49fc371f5c8a01e7e1a81960942a05d2312dafc716239b685850f0af0f48/0/usr/lib/ostree/ostree-prepare-root
ostree=/ostree/boot.1/apertis/c39a49fc371f5c8a01e7e1a81960942a05d2312dafc716239b685850f0af0f48/0
/root/ostree/boot.1/apertis/c39a49fc371f5c8a01e7e1a81960942a05d2312dafc716239b685850f0af0f48/0
run-init: can't execute '/ostree/boot.1/apertis/c39a49fc371f5c8a01e7e1a81960942a05d2312dafc716239b685850f0af0f48/0/usr/lib/ostree/ostree-prepare-root': No such file or directory
Target filesystem doesn't have requested /ostree/boot.1/apertis/c39a49fc371f5c8a01e7e1a81960942a05d2312dafc716239b685850f0af0f48/0/usr/lib/ostree/ostree-prepare-root.
[   15.978918] coda 2040000.vpu: firmware: failed to load vpu_fw_imx6q.bin (-2)
[   16.016483] coda 2040000.vpu: firmware: failed to load vpu/vpu_fw_imx6q.bin (-2)
[   16.025298] coda 2040000.vpu: firmware: failed to load v4l-coda960-imx6q.bin (-2)
[   16.033170] coda 2040000.vpu: firmware request failed
[   16.615389] ov5640 1-0040: ov5640_init_slave_id: failed with -6

Apertis v2022 apertis ttymxc1
apertis login: user
Password: 
Linux apertis 5.15.0-trunk-armmp #1 SMP Debian 5.15.22-0~apertis1 (2022-02-10) armv7l

The programs included with the Apertis system are free software;
the exact distribution terms for each program are described in the
individual files in /usr/share/doc/*/copyright.

Apertis comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent
permitted by applicable law.
Last login: Fri Mar 11 04:29:20 UTC 2022 on ttymxc1


BusyBox v1.30.1 (Apertis 1:1.30.1-6+apertis2bv2022dev3b1) built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.

$ cat /etc/image_version 
apertis v2022 20220309.0316 collabora
$

Reproducibility

1. ✅always

Impact of bug

TBD

Root cause

TBD

Outcomes

TBD

Management data

This section is for management only, it should be the last one in the description.

Phabricator link: https://phabricator.apertis.org/T8683