This issue is solved in Debian a long time ago: metapackage https://packages.debian.org/sid/firmware-linux depends on small firmware-linux-free package and firmware-linux-nonfree metapackage
metapackage https://packages.debian.org/sid/firmware-linux-nonfree depends on most useful "nonfree" firmware, including this pretty firmware-misc-nonfree package (takes only ~40 MB after installation, instead of ~900MB sizes of Ubuntu's linux-firmware): https://packages.debian.org/sid/firmware-misc-nonfree Btw, netronome firmware is packaged separately in Debian, as you wish, see https://packages.debian.org/sid/firmware-netronome Someone from Ubuntu developers decided simply put all useful and almost not used firmware into huge package, which is updated very often and this causes a lot of problems for users, especially who uses SSD storage or slow internet connection :( -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux-firmware in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1958518 Title: split some large, lesser-used firmware files into -extra package Status in linux-firmware package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in linux-firmware source package in Jammy: Confirmed Bug description: The linux-image-generic package depends on linux-firmware which is over half a gigabyte in size installed. I will assume that quite many people do not have netronome hardware which weighs in at almost 150MB of that. I kindly suggest to put such large firmware for less common hardware into its own linux-firmware-extra package which would be recommended by linux-firmare. Comments? I'm willing to help with the packaging provided that the changes have a chance to land. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-firmware/+bug/1958518/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
