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 _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
