On Tue, Oct 7, 2025 at 5:34 PM Neal Gompa <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 7, 2025 at 11:30 AM Fabio Valentini <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Tue, Oct 7, 2025 at 2:16 PM Neal Gompa <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, Oct 7, 2025 at 3:35 AM Michael J Gruber <[email protected]> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > 07.10.2025 03:07:26 Neal Gompa <[email protected]>: > > > > > > > > > On Mon, Oct 6, 2025 at 8:41 PM Luya Tshimbalanga > > > > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > >> > > > > >> It seems like an opportunity to revisit integrating the /boot into > > > > >> btrfs (notably for Workstation) as subvolume for future release. > > > > >> > > > > > > > > > > I'd like to, but it's blocked on getting a patch into our GRUB that > > > > > lets the grubenv live in the btrfs bootloader space. > > > > > > > > > > There's a bug tracking this: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2372973 > > > > > > > > > > > > > Nice. Before I get too excited: > > > > (How) Does this work with luks? > > > > > > > > > > LUKS will still require a dedicated /boot partition. When Btrfs native > > > encryption lands in the near future, we'd encrypt each subvolume but > > > leave /boot alone instead. > > > > Heh, hasn't this been "near future" for a while now? :) > > > > Well, it was recently picked back up again just a couple weeks ago: > https://github.com/btrfs/linux/issues/1000#issuecomment-3337123850 > > > On another note, I've read that linux supports loading and merging > > multiple initramfs images. > > So ... it sounds as if it would be possible to deduplicate stuff like > > "firmware", which right now is present 4 (?) times on /boot - by > > putting it into a separate initramfs that is *shared* by all three > > bootloader entries (maybe not the rescue boot entry)? > > > > That only works if firmware isn't tied to specific driver versions, > which is not how it works right now. Since driver versions and > firmware blobs are tightly coupled (for at least NVIDIA), there's no > deduplication wins right now.
I'm not sure I understand. The firmware is shipped by linux-firmware* packages, which aren't tied to specific "kernel*" package versions. Doesn't that mean that stuff included in initramfs images from linux-firmware* should be identical between initramfs images for different kernels? Fabio -- _______________________________________________ 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
