Re: F37 proposal: Linux Firmware Minimization (late System-Wide Change proposal)

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On Fri, Jul 1, 2022 at 9:47 PM Dusty Mabe <dusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On 7/1/22 18:14, Neal Gompa wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 1, 2022 at 2:10 PM Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Fri, Jul 1 2022 at 01:54:58 PM -0400, Ben Cotton
> >> <bcotton@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>> A DNF plugin will be written to make use of the `Supplements` metadata
> >>> to automatically install the appropriate firmware packages based on
> >>> the hardware present on the system (see openSUSE's `libzypp`:
> >>> https://github.com/openSUSE/libzypp/blob/a34d857dbe3b16d4a7e0219cd213cc5a87966538/zypp/target/modalias/Modalias.cc
> >>> and
> >>> https://github.com/openSUSE/libzypp/blob/7f345ea4892fd02345e8de47c2a08ab5b174650b/doc/autoinclude/Modalias.doc)
> >>
> >> What about Fedora editions that don't have dnf (Silverblue, Kinoite,
> >> CoreOS)?
> >
> > They load libdnf through rpm-ostree, so a libdnf plugin will still work.
> >
>
> I'm not the most qualified to speak to this point, but I'm not sure that just because rpm-ostree uses libdnf
> under the hood this will automatically just work. I suspect that it won't work. Probably for those variants
> we'd just need to include the `linux-firmware-all` package (or whatever equivalent to get what we currently have).


Or could the plugin be used to create rpm-ostree layers with the
necessary firmware packages?

-- 
Chris Murphy
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