On Tue, Mar 1, 2016, at 12:17 PM, Giuseppe Scrivano wrote: > Hi, > > has anyone looked before into the kernel modules we are shipping with > Fedora Atomic Host and is there any plan on removing modules that are > not needed? > > For example, removing the following ones could help to reduce (slightly) > the image size:
There was an effort to split the kernel: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Modular_Kernel_Packaging_for_Cloud This is yet a different case though. I'm not sure how well the modular kernel really worked anyways due to the spectrum of use cases (e.g. in some cases you might have a cloud image that wants to drive a GPU that's available via passthrough...) Basically I'd say in order to do this we'd have to move to deployment-specific images. For example, we know in a virt environment we could drop a lot of the drivers. Dropping out sound cards is something that would cross all of the deployment targets, but I'm uncertain about the win vs maintenance.
