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.
Kevin Kofler
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