Hi, according to google in 5.3 the xz compression was introduced so all kernels we ship should support it. greetings tpowa
Am Mo., 27. Sept. 2021 um 21:54 Uhr schrieb Giancarlo Razzolini via arch-dev-public <arch-dev-public@lists.archlinux.org>: > Em setembro 27, 2021 16:46 Jelle van der Waa via arch-dev-public escreveu: > > On 27/09/2021 21:13, Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) via arch-dev-public > > wrote: > >> On Mon, Sep 27, 2021 at 8:30 PM Tobias Powalowski via arch-dev-public < > >> arch-dev-public@lists.archlinux.org> wrote: > >> > >>> Hi guys, > >>> lately did a lot of archboot hacking and stumbled over our firmware > >>> package. > >>> It needs installed 750 MB, download size is 130 MB. > >>> I tried to get it smaller and uploaded the archboot-linux-firmware > package > >>> for my purposes. > >>> Our linux kernel needs only 180 MB installed size, download size is > about > >>> 37 MB. > >>> Wouldn't it make sense to provide for each kernel we ship, a separate > >>> firmware package? > >>> Just my 2 cwnts, > >>> greetings > >>> tpowa > >>> > >> > >> The method used there wouldn't produce a usable firmware package for me. > >> For example, `modinfo -F firmware iwlwifi` lists > >> `iwlwifi-Qu-c0-hr-b0-64.ucode` but linux-firmware does not contain that > >> file. The driver will fall back to the next lower version, > >> `iwlwifi-Qu-c0-hr-b0-63.ucode`, which is in linux-firmware but not in > the > >> modinfo output. > >> > >> I think the best we can do is split some of the more obscure vendors > that > >> have large firmware sets, like Netronome, Qualcomm, Mellanox, Marvell, > >> Cavium, QLogic and NXP. > > > > > > I second this, the biggest firmware sizes are from these fancynetwork > > equipemnt folks such as netronome. An alternative is enabling xz > > compression for the firmware itself this should save space as well, but > > it depends on support in the LTS kernel. > > > > Can't we do both? Enable xz and split the larger firmwares? Or LTS don't > have > plans to support xz for firmware? > > Regards, > Giancarlo Razzolini > -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tp...@archlinux.org
