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On Friday, 19 July 2024 17:27:39 CEST Diederik de Haas wrote:
> Today I learned something new and that is that plymouth includes
> GPU modules AND their firmware in the initramfs.

And learned something else via https://bugs.debian.org/1076582#37 :

On vrijdag 19 juli 2024 17:56:30 CEST Chris Hofstaedtler wrote:
> One of the things I've noticed:
> 
> /usr/lib/firmware/nvidia/tu104/gsp is supposed to be a symlink to
> /usr/lib/firmware/nvidia/tu102/gsp. However, in initrd.img, this is
> a copy of the directory; accounting for 25M on its own.
> 
> No wonder the initrd is way too large.

They are symlinks in the firmware-nvidia-graphics package, which leads
to initramfs-tools being the problem.

In *Experimental* there's version 0.143 and there's at least 1 report
that that keeps the symlinks (IOW: fixes the problem most likely)

Can you test whether the problem is indeed fixed with initramfs-tools
version 0.143?

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