To give a use-case. I, like many others, have started to use thinclients as powerful-enough home/LAN servers. One such "beast" is an Igel with 2GB of flash storage. That would be plenty if not for the linux-firmware choice that Ubuntu makes. Sure, I can work around it, but why do I have to?
I am happy to see the size come back down to around half a gig but it is still kind of fat. -- 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/1958518 Title: split some large, lesser-used firmware files into -extra package Status in linux-firmware package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in linux-firmware source package in Jammy: Confirmed 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. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-firmware/+bug/1958518/+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
