On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 12:56:26PM -0500, Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Martin Kolman <mkolman@xxxxxxxxxx> said: > > I wonder if this can also help make the boot isos and installation images smaller ? I'm sure they haver some firmware on > > them. Or alternatively we could reduce the potentially quite meintenance intensive firmware culling we do at the moment. > > One thing I hadn't realized until recently is that the kernel, core > modules, and some firmware are duplicated on the install ISOs. > > First, on the ISO, vmlinuz and initrd.img are duplicated in the isolinux > and images/pxeboot directories. Or are these maybe hardlinked? I can't > remember if you can even do that on ISO. > > Beyond that, the kernel is on the ISO in isolinux/vmlinuz, and inside > the rootfs image in both /boot and /usr/lib/modules/<version>. The core > modules and some firmware are in the ISO in initrd.img as well as in the > rootfs image. > > It'd be nice to remove some of that duplication - is there any reason to > have any vmlinuz inside the rootfs image? Could modules and firmware > copied to the initrd.img be removed as well (and then referenced from > the different mount point as needed in the installer, or maybe bind > mounted back where they came from if needed)? While this would make the > installer setup a little more complicated, it would save some space. I tried :) It ends up that there are users who boot the install.img with fips=1 which means it needs to be present. It was removed for a bit, and then I reverted the removal: https://github.com/weldr/lorax/commit/3c745aed8d535cae8430161192e0a1505c212c89 Brian -- Brian C. Lane (PST8PDT) - weldr.io - lorax - parted - pykickstart _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to 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/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
