On Tue, 3 Jun 2025 at 04:05, Juerg Haefliger <juerg.haefli...@canonical.com> wrote:
> Hi, > > linux-firmware is ever growing and I'd like to entertain the thought of > splitting it up. Not as fine grained as Debian but only split out the > bigger > GPU blobs (for now): > > - linux-firmware (provides the bulk of the blobs) > - linux-<vendor>-graphics (similar to Debian, provides vendor specific > graphics related firmwares) > This sounds like a good plan for me. I've long been a bit agitated about how much of the server installer ISO is taken up by firmware -- it's something on the order of 25% of the total size! (~500MiB out of a total of ~2GiB). Would the server installer be able to get away without the -graphics blobs? (i.e. are systems in practice to operate a vt without any firmware at all?) Cheers, mwh > This obviously can't break users so I'm trying to understand which pieces > need to be updated for seamless release upgrades and new installations. I > think this means that we need to detect what's in the system and install > the > relevant linux-<vendor>-graphics package(s). Is this > ubuntu-release-upgrader? > subiquity? ubuntu-drivers? All of them? Anything else? > > Image generation and seeds would probably be affected by this as well. > > Does anyone see any (other) issues with this? > > Thanks > ...Juerg > -- > ubuntu-devel mailing list > ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel >
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