Re: Small rant: installer environment size

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On Thu, 2022-12-08 at 19:59 +0100, drago01 wrote:
> On Thursday, December 8, 2022, Adam Williamson <adamwill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 2022-12-08 at 12:58 +0000, Peter Robinson wrote:
> > > 
> > > I've done a few passes, dropping a bunch of older firmware upstream
> > > that are no longer supported in any stable kernel release, also a
> > > bunch of de-dupe and linking of files rather than shipping of multiple
> > > copies of the same firmware. It's improved things a bit, unfortunately
> > > a lot of the dead firmware was tiny compared to say average modern
> > > devices like GPUs or WiFI.
> > > 
> > > The problem with a lot of the firmware, and with the new nvidia "open
> > > driver" which shoves a lot of stuff into firmware in order to have an
> > > upstreamable driver apparently the firmwares there are going to be
> > > 30+Mb each, is that they're needed to bring up graphics/network etc to
> > > even just install so I don't know how we can get around this and still
> > > have a device work enough to be able to install the needed firmware
> > > across the network.
> > > 
> > > Ideas on how to solve that problem welcome.
> > 
> > Sorry if this is way off, but - do we need the GPU firmwares to run a
> > graphical install on the fallback path, just using the framebuffer set
> > up by the firmware? How crazy would it be to just do that - ship the
> > installer env with no GPU firmware?
> 
> 
> That would be very crazy, as you will have a degraded user experience
> (laggy UI, wrong resolution, ...) to save a couple of megabytes that are a
> non issue for today's hardware.

I mean, the modern systems that *need* GPU firmware generally seem to
do pretty well with using native resolution and don't perform too
badly, especially in the simple installer UI. When I test the fallback
path on my bare metal test box on UEFI it uses the monitor's native
resolution and performs fine (even, honestly, in GNOME), and that
motherboard is nearly a decade old even. Don't know if this is the same
for everyone, of course.
-- 
Adam Williamson
Fedora QA
IRC: adamw | Twitter: adamw_ha
https://www.happyassassin.net

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