On 2025-09-16 17:46:50 +0200, Erwan David wrote: > Le 16/09/2025 à 16:35, Stefan Monnier a écrit : > > > So I've tried MODULES=dep (and still COMPRESS=lzma and COMPRESSLEVEL=9 > > > as before). Now: > > > > > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 122M 2025-09-16 00:43:13 > > > initrd.img-6.16.7+deb14-amd64 > > > > > > But this is still *a lot*. > > More than 100MB even with `dep`? Wow! > > > > My crystal ball says it's likely some big blob added to the initrd, like > > `intel-microcode` likes to do, tho I've never seen anything that large. > > I've seen this large with some graphic firmwares, amd IIRC
Yes, I can see in particular: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 38061600 Aug 15 14:51 usr/lib/firmware/nvidia/ga102/gsp/gsp-535.113.01.bin -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 63571696 Aug 15 14:51 usr/lib/firmware/nvidia/ga102/gsp/gsp-570.144.bin -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 23750944 Aug 15 14:51 usr/lib/firmware/nvidia/tu102/gsp/gsp-535.113.01.bin -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 28542040 Aug 15 14:51 usr/lib/firmware/nvidia/tu102/gsp/gsp-570.144.bin But since I have a Nvidia chip, I suppose that they are needed at some point: 0000:01:00.0 3D controller [0302]: NVIDIA Corporation GA107GLM [RTX A1000 Laptop GPU] [10de:25b9] (rev a1) But is it really necessary that such firmware be present in the initrd? -- Vincent Lefèvre <[email protected]> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Pascaline project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
