On Wed, Oct 1, 2025 at 9:23 PM Neal Gompa <[email protected]> wrote:

> With three kernels at any given time (plus the rescue image), a
> conservative estimate of 300MiB per generic initramfs makes 1.5GB very tight.
> We probably do want to bump /boot to 2GB. And all our disk images need
> similar adjustments unfortunately.
>
> Since it's possible to have all-generic initramfses as a
> configuration, we have to account for it.
>

Picking only on nvidia (which is unfair, but they
are currently an example of large files), and
that nvidia has moved to a yearly cadence for
DC GPUs, one might imagine that the linux
firmware packages might need ~6 years of
100MB (and probably only growing) firmwares
(one for every LTS kernel).  It is not out of the
range of imagination that one might need
a 3GB partition (or even 4GB?) moving forward
to avoid running into this all over again before
the end of the decade unless these firmwares
can be moved out of the single initramfs (I
think grub and sdboot can both support
multiple initrd's, so, in theory, we could just
have one copy of the firmwares for all the
kernels (there is a lot of handwaving in that
theory)).
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