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List:       fedora-devel-list
Subject:    Re: Small rant: installer environment size
From:       Adam Williamson <adamwill () fedoraproject ! org>
Date:       2022-12-11 19:53:55
Message-ID: 721ec8706c91a2a8464d5e7a76d9fa99c9a32555.camel () fedoraproject ! org
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On Sun, 2022-12-11 at 20:23 +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * 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.

I'm working on this with Peter and the Intel firmware folks ATM.
There's a PR at
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/linux-firmware/pull-request/9 , and
Intel folks seem receptive to the idea of removing at least some of the
older ones upstream too.
-- 
Adam Williamson
Fedora QA
IRC: adamw | Twitter: adamw_ha
https://www.happyassassin.net

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