Perhaps a dumb question - but why even bother to put any of the GPU binaries in the initramfs? There should be a good enough display from the pre-boot framebuffer that none of them should be needed with simpledrm.
Punt i915.ko, xe.ko, amdgpu.ko, nvidia.ko out of the initramfs and let them get loaded later in boot. It should solve this problem I would expect. Furthermore this gets you a lot "closer" to server built and signed initrd images. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux-firmware in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2077490 Title: Error: out of memory while booting after installing the linux-firmware in proposed Status in initramfs-tools package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in linux-firmware package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: [Impact] I found that there are some machines in cert lab can't boot after installing the linux-frimware in proposed with 6.8.0-40 kernel. After selecting booting with the 6.8.0-40 kernel, it shows error: out of memory on the screen then freeze. There aren't any journal logs available, since they froze at very early stage. Following are the machines got impacted for now https://certification.canonical.com/hardware/202306-31695/ https://certification.canonical.com/hardware/202306-31696/ Problem details: The linux-firmware package provides new (gigantic) firmware blobs and symlinks to directories that contain those. initramfs-tools can't handle the directory symlinks and puts multiple copies of the same blobs into the initrd blowing it up to a size where it becomes problematic on some machines. [Test Case] Verify the affected machine boots again with the updated firmware package. Install updated linux-firmware package and confirm that there are no duplicate firmware files in /lib/firmware and inside the initrd. Also verify that there are no broken symlinks. [Where Problems Could Occur] If the new symlinks are broken, we end up with drivers not finding their firmwares which results in non-functional HW components. [Notes] This is not a general solution for the problem of the ever growing size of the initrd. It just alleviate it some. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/initramfs-tools/+bug/2077490/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
