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List:       fedora-devel-list
Subject:    Re: Small rant: installer environment size
From:       Florian Weimer <fweimer () redhat ! com>
Date:       2022-12-11 19:23:32
Message-ID: 87lendg2x7.fsf () oldenburg ! str ! redhat ! com
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* Kevin Kofler via devel:

> Adam Williamson wrote:
>> Looking at sizes, iwlwifi firmware alone is 75M(!) ath10k is 6.8M,
>> ath11k is 12M, ath6k is 812K, so that's nearly another 20M. brcm/ is
>> another 6.4M and I *think* that's all wifi. There's a few other minor
>> ones, but that's a little over 100M of just wifi, with Intel by a huge
>> margin the worst offender.
>>  
>> Does anyone know anyone we can talk to at Intel about this? It's pretty
>> obnoxious.
>
> It's the same situation as for some of the GPU firmwares: They have 
> submitted as vendor driver to upstream, which does very little, together 
> with a huge proprietary firmware, which does most of the real work. Hardware 
> manufacturers love playing that trick.

Uhm, part of the problem is that firmware versions which cannot be
loaded by the kernel are not removed upstream, or in the linux-firmware
package.  The wifi firmware file I use is just 450 KiB compressed, but
that turns into 6.8 MiB compressed due to this kind of near-duplication.

Unfortunately, I don't see an easy way to discover which firmware files
the kernel can ever load.

Thanks,
Florian
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