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. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA IRC: adamw | Twitter: adamw_ha https://www.happyassassin.net _______________________________________________ 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 Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
