On Thu, 2025-10-02 at 00:26 +0200, Marius Schwarz wrote: > Am 01.10.25 um 20:12 schrieb Chris Murphy: > > > > On Wed, Oct 1, 2025, at 1:25 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > > > Fedora 42: Users should now have a fix in dracut-107-3. New initramfs > > > will be about 1/2 the size. > > This Fedora 42 user reports a ~280 MB rescue initramfs, ~180 MB hostonly > > initramfs before revert, and ~156 MB after revert. They do have nvidia gpu, > > so we can deduct 100 MB due to the size of the nvidia firmware, but even 56 > > MB is 2x bigger than I'd expect. > > > > The nvidia firmware contains two different major releases. It could be > 30-50% smaller (which is still huge ) if the nvidia firmware package is > split into 2 seperate versions > and just the needed one is included in the initramfs. > > Example: > > 36K usr/lib/firmware/nvidia/ga102/gsp/booter_load-535.113.01.bin.xz > 36K usr/lib/firmware/nvidia/ga102/gsp/booter_load-570.144.bin.xz > 20K usr/lib/firmware/nvidia/ga102/gsp/booter_unload-535.113.01.bin.xz > 24K usr/lib/firmware/nvidia/ga102/gsp/booter_unload-570.144.bin.xz > 20K usr/lib/firmware/nvidia/ga102/gsp/bootloader-535.113.01.bin.xz > 20K usr/lib/firmware/nvidia/ga102/gsp/bootloader-570.144.bin.xz > 25M usr/lib/firmware/nvidia/ga102/gsp/gsp-535.113.01.bin.xz > 49M usr/lib/firmware/nvidia/ga102/gsp/gsp-570.144.bin.xz
To my best understanding, Fedora doesn't *need* the 535 firmwares *at all* (per upstream). I sent https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/linux-firmware/pull-request/22 about this. See discussion there. Even if we drop it, though, 570 is twice the size of 535, so we still lost something. -- Adam Williamson (he/him/his) Fedora QA Fedora Chat: @adamwill:fedora.im | Mastodon: @[email protected] https://www.happyassassin.net -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] 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/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
