Current /lib/firmware disk usage for different series:
326M bionic
695M focal
914M jammy
879M lunar
After replacing duplicates with symlinks:
309M bionic
663M focal
878M jammy
843M lunar
Even for Bionic we can shave off almost 20MB, so nominating for all
series.
** Also affects: linux-firmware (Ubuntu Lunar)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Also affects: linux-firmware (Ubuntu Focal)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Also affects: linux-firmware (Ubuntu Bionic)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Also affects: linux-firmware (Ubuntu Mantic)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Also affects: linux-firmware (Ubuntu Jammy)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Changed in: linux-firmware (Ubuntu Bionic)
Status: New => Triaged
** Changed in: linux-firmware (Ubuntu Bionic)
Assignee: (unassigned) => Juerg Haefliger (juergh)
** Changed in: linux-firmware (Ubuntu Focal)
Status: New => Triaged
** Changed in: linux-firmware (Ubuntu Jammy)
Status: New => Triaged
** Changed in: linux-firmware (Ubuntu Lunar)
Status: New => Triaged
** Changed in: linux-firmware (Ubuntu Mantic)
Status: New => Triaged
** Changed in: linux-firmware (Ubuntu Focal)
Assignee: (unassigned) => Juerg Haefliger (juergh)
** Changed in: linux-firmware (Ubuntu Jammy)
Assignee: (unassigned) => Juerg Haefliger (juergh)
** Changed in: linux-firmware (Ubuntu Lunar)
Assignee: (unassigned) => Juerg Haefliger (juergh)
** Changed in: linux-firmware (Ubuntu Mantic)
Assignee: (unassigned) => Juerg Haefliger (juergh)
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2019072
Title:
600+ duplicate or duplicated firmware files exist.
Status in Linux Firmware:
New
Status in linux-firmware package in Ubuntu:
Triaged
Status in linux-firmware source package in Bionic:
Triaged
Status in linux-firmware source package in Focal:
Triaged
Status in linux-firmware source package in Jammy:
Triaged
Status in linux-firmware source package in Lunar:
Triaged
Status in linux-firmware source package in Mantic:
Triaged
Bug description:
Over 600 duplicate or duplicated firmware files exist. Less than two
years ago it was 650~MB on disk. Three years ago it was 500~MB. Today
it hovers around 900MB.
find /lib/firmware/ ! -empty -type f -exec md5sum {} + | sort | uniq
-w32 -dD && du -sh /lib/firmware
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