On Wed, Oct 1, 2025 at 11:09 PM Adam Williamson <[email protected]> wrote:
> To my best understanding, Fedora doesn't *need* the 535 firmwares *at > all* (per upstream). I sent > https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/linux-firmware/pull-request/22 about > this. See discussion there. Even if we drop it, though, 570 is twice > the size of 535, so we still lost something. As I recall (at least from some time ago; I suppose things have improved) the basic problem is that while the modules define the needed firmware for the particular module/driver (not only for nvidia, but others), modules do not export that information in a way that dracut (or another implementation) can use to only include the appropriate required firmware in the initramfs (so you end up including all possible (nvidia) firmware versions). That would seem to be a kernel upstream feature request to add in the specific firmware that modules for a specific release will request be available in a way dracut (or another implementation) could utilize (as manually playing whack-a-mole is not sustainable). -- _______________________________________________ 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
