Why is the size problematic? And how do you define less common HW? Where
do you draw the line? Some HW might not be common for you but is for
others. I'm sympathetic to the request but it's not trivial to find the
right balance without upsetting/breaking existing users.
** Also affects: linux-firmware (Ubuntu Jammy)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Changed in: linux-firmware (Ubuntu Jammy)
Assignee: (unassigned) => Juerg Haefliger (juergh)
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Title:
split some large, lesser-used firmware files into -extra package
Status in linux-firmware package in Ubuntu:
New
Status in linux-firmware source package in Jammy:
New
Bug description:
The linux-image-generic package depends on linux-firmware which is
over half a gigabyte in size installed. I will assume that quite many
people do not have netronome hardware which weighs in at almost 150MB
of that. I kindly suggest to put such large firmware for less common
hardware into its own linux-firmware-extra package which would be
recommended by linux-firmare.
Comments?
I'm willing to help with the packaging provided that the changes have
a chance to land.
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