On 4 March 2016 at 07:17, Colin Walters <walt...@verbum.org> wrote: > 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.
It's also worth remembering there are folks experimenting with Atomic-for-workstations, so it would probably be a good thing to wait until https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Workstation/AtomicWorkstation trees were available before dropping client-only drivers from the main Atomic Host trees. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia
