Re: Small rant: installer environment size

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On Thu, 2022-12-08 at 16:51 +0000, Gary Buhrmaster wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 8, 2022 at 12:58 PM Peter Robinson <pbrobinson@xxxxxxxxx> 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.
> 
> Does compressing the firmware using zstd (perhaps
> at an aggressive level) level help at all?

It already *is* compressed, which is why it doesn't get any smaller in
the compressed filesystem image, unlike the other things I mentioned.
Check for yourself - look under /lib/firmware and you'll see only
things ending in .xz.
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