On Wed, Oct 15, 2025, at 4:50 AM, Michael J Gruber wrote:
> But maybe (if I read Chris correctly) we have to admit that we cannot > serve both well by the same solution, and that we need an R-solution and > a U-solution. There's more than one problem causing initramfs to get so much bigger, well over 100 MiB for some users. One problem affects everyone on Fedora 42 and 43. Fedora 42 already have a partial revert of that. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2394213 Another issue is growth of gpu firmware. Some folks are looking into shipping only nvidia 570 version firmware instead of both 535 and 570, as an update, to both Fedora 42 and 43. That will further reduce initramfs sizes. Most everyone with Fedora 43 new clean install, or anyone replacing their rescue initramfs, will likely get rather large (almost 300 MiB) rescue initramfs. That will only come down a bit after the firmware package size is reduced, and people rebuild their rescue initramfs (which is pretty rare). We could opt to automatically rebuild the rescue initramfs during major system updates - using the same tested kernel. I hope these mitigations efforts will help all users with 1 GiB boot avoid issues. But I think everyone knows that won't be an indefinite postponement. Hence, moving to a 2 Gib boot for Fedora 43. The bootloader conversation is somewhat related but also not directly related. -- Chris Murphy -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] 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/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
