On Wed, Dec 07, 2022 at 04:42:05PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
I've moaned about the sheer amount and size of firmware blobs in
other
forums before, but 214M compressed is *really* obnoxious. We must be
able to do something to clean this up (further than it's already
cleaned up - this is *after* we dropped low-hanging fruit like
enterprise switch 'firmwares' and garbage like that; most of the
remaining size seems to be huge amounts of probably-very-similar
firmware files for AMD graphics adapters and Intel wireless adapters).
I know some folks were trying to work on this (there was talk that we
could drop quite a lot of files that would only be loaded by older
kernels no longer in Fedora); any news on how far along that effort is?
You only need network / wifi firmware blobs (although I'm sure they
are in themselves large) and then you can fetch anything else needed
for the hardware including graphics, right?
Rich.
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