Michael Hudson-Doyle <michael.hud...@canonical.com> schrieb am Di., 17. Juni 2025, 05:37:
> > > 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 > On virtual machines you most probably don't want any firmware. On tiny embeded systems you would only want the strictly necessary firmware. In an installer an advanced user might prefer a choice between firmware for detected hardware and give me all. 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 > Both Ethernet and WiFi have failed for me due to missing firmware. On internal GPUs of ARM and RISC-V SoCs you might not get a usable desktop without firmware. Best regards Heinrich > >> 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 >> > -- > 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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