* Kevin Kofler via devel: > Adam Williamson wrote: >> Looking at sizes, iwlwifi firmware alone is 75M(!) ath10k is 6.8M, >> ath11k is 12M, ath6k is 812K, so that's nearly another 20M. brcm/ is >> another 6.4M and I *think* that's all wifi. There's a few other minor >> ones, but that's a little over 100M of just wifi, with Intel by a huge >> margin the worst offender. >> >> Does anyone know anyone we can talk to at Intel about this? It's pretty >> obnoxious. > > It's the same situation as for some of the GPU firmwares: They have > submitted as vendor driver to upstream, which does very little, together > with a huge proprietary firmware, which does most of the real work. Hardware > manufacturers love playing that trick. Uhm, part of the problem is that firmware versions which cannot be loaded by the kernel are not removed upstream, or in the linux-firmware package. The wifi firmware file I use is just 450 KiB compressed, but that turns into 6.8 MiB compressed due to this kind of near-duplication. Unfortunately, I don't see an easy way to discover which firmware files the kernel can ever load. Thanks, Florian _______________________________________________ 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
