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. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-builder quickly builds VMs from scratch http://libguestfs.org/virt-builder.1.html _______________________________________________ Anaconda-devel mailing list -- anaconda-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to anaconda-devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/anaconda-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
