On Di, 16.12.25 10:29, Neal Gompa ([email protected]) wrote: > > > > > 1. For now vmlinuz will grow by about 3 MB which is not a problem, > > > > > but as > > > > > more DTBs get added it will grow more. There are several ideas to > > > > > reduce > > > > > the growth but those are not implemented yet. > > > > > > > > Can't the DTBs be shipped as UKI add-ons? > > > > > > That's a good question, but I wonder if that would be too late? I was > > > told we can't do it in initramfs, which makes it sound like it > > > absolutely needs to be in vmlinux. > > > > Add-ons are loaded by the systemd efi stub. They can carry data which > > is later user by the initrd (sysext + confext), but it is also possible > > to add things to the UKI. I think having add-ons with '.dtbauto' > > sections and have systemd-stub use them when booting the kernel should > > work. > > Can the addons live outside of the ESP space? I'd rather have them in > /boot than in the ESP.
The addons are supposed to be placed next to the UKI. sd-stub looks for them in a subdir named like the UKI, suffixed with .extra.d/. Hence, wherever you put the UKI, you can also put the extensions. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Berlin -- _______________________________________________ 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
