On Mon, 2022-12-12 at 13:05 +0100, Vitaly Zaitsev via devel wrote:
> On 12/12/2022 11:48, Florian Weimer wrote:
> > The way I read it, Adam is removing firmware files that current Fedora
> > kernels won't load, ever.
> 
> Are you sure that that firmware is not needed at all?

Yes. I've double-checked that with Intel's firmware maintainers.
> 
> If Intel ships all these blobs in linux-firmware, then they have a good 
> reason for this, don't they?

Not really. Just nobody ever suggested removing them before, I don't
think, and they weren't causing Intel any problems. Unused stuff left
lying around for years is hardly unusual in software projects...
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