Re: F37 proposal: Linux Firmware Minimization (late System-Wide Change proposal)

On Fri, Jul 1, 2022 at 9:47 PM Dusty Mabe wrote: > > > > On 7/1/22 18:14, Neal Gompa wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 1, 2022 at 2:10 PM Michael Catanzaro > > wrote: > >> > >> On Fri, Jul 1 2022 at 01:54:58 PM -0400, Ben Cotton > >> wrote: > >>> A DNF plugin will be written to make use of the

Re: F37 proposal: Linux Firmware Minimization (late System-Wide Change proposal)

Agree with Dusty here: it's likely that the DNF plugin won't be used at all with rpm-ostree. This change would however enable some rpm-ostree variants to more finely select the firmwares that they want: for example, Fedora CoreOS could skip all WiFi related firmwares and Fedora Silverblue

Re: F37 proposal: Linux Firmware Minimization (late System-Wide Change proposal)

On Sat, Jul 2, 2022 at 8:36 PM Vitaly Zaitsev via devel wrote: > > On 02/07/2022 18:27, Ben Cotton wrote: > > This proposal has been withdrawn by the owners. > > Why? Very useful feature. Because they didn't coordinate with the maintainers, it wasn't ready and overall has flaws that need to be

Re: F37 proposal: Linux Firmware Minimization (late System-Wide Change proposal)

On 02/07/2022 18:27, Ben Cotton wrote: This proposal has been withdrawn by the owners. Why? Very useful feature. -- Sincerely, Vitaly Zaitsev (vit...@easycoding.org) ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an

Re: F37 proposal: Linux Firmware Minimization (late System-Wide Change proposal)

Am 02.07.22 um 18:27 schrieb Ben Cotton: On Fri, Jul 1, 2022, 1:54 PM Ben Cotton > wrote: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Linux_Firmware_Minimization This proposal has been

Re: F37 proposal: Linux Firmware Minimization (late System-Wide Change proposal)

On Sat, Jul 2, 2022 at 12:29 PM Ben Cotton wrote: > > > > On Fri, Jul 1, 2022, 1:54 PM Ben Cotton wrote: >> >> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Linux_Firmware_Minimization > > > This proposal has been withdrawn by the owners. All my hopes and dreams dashed with this statement. :( --

Re: F37 proposal: Linux Firmware Minimization (late System-Wide Change proposal)

On Fri, Jul 1, 2022, 1:54 PM Ben Cotton wrote: > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Linux_Firmware_Minimization This proposal has been withdrawn by the owners. ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email

Re: F37 proposal: Linux Firmware Minimization (late System-Wide Change proposal)

On 01/07/2022 19:54, Ben Cotton wrote: Split linux-firmware into more subpackages, and add the ability to automatically install firmware based on the hardware present +1. Finally. Thanks for implementing this. -- Sincerely, Vitaly Zaitsev (vit...@easycoding.org)

Re: F37 proposal: Linux Firmware Minimization (late System-Wide Change proposal)

Dne 01. 07. 22 v 19:54 Ben Cotton napsal(a): == Detailed Description == The `linux-firmware` RPM is very large (175M src.rpm, 287M *.noarch.rpm per 20211027-126) that bundles most of the system firmware loaded by the kernel, regardless of whether it’s actually needed. Some additional firmwares

Re: F37 proposal: Linux Firmware Minimization (late System-Wide Change proposal)

On 7/1/22 18:14, Neal Gompa wrote: > On Fri, Jul 1, 2022 at 2:10 PM Michael Catanzaro wrote: >> >> On Fri, Jul 1 2022 at 01:54:58 PM -0400, Ben Cotton >> wrote: >>> A DNF plugin will be written to make use of the `Supplements` metadata >>> to automatically install the appropriate firmware

Re: F37 proposal: Linux Firmware Minimization (late System-Wide Change proposal)

On Fri, Jul 1, 2022 at 1:57 PM Ben Cotton wrote: > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Linux_Firmware_Minimization > > This document represents a proposed Change. As part of the Changes > process, proposals are publicly announced in order to receive > community feedback. This proposal will

Re: F37 proposal: Linux Firmware Minimization (late System-Wide Change proposal)

On Fri, Jul 1, 2022 at 2:10 PM Michael Catanzaro wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 1 2022 at 01:54:58 PM -0400, Ben Cotton > wrote: > > A DNF plugin will be written to make use of the `Supplements` metadata > > to automatically install the appropriate firmware packages based on > > the hardware present on

Re: F37 proposal: Linux Firmware Minimization (late System-Wide Change proposal)

On Fri, Jul 1 2022 at 01:54:58 PM -0400, Ben Cotton wrote: A DNF plugin will be written to make use of the `Supplements` metadata to automatically install the appropriate firmware packages based on the hardware present on the system (see openSUSE's `libzypp`:

F37 proposal: Linux Firmware Minimization (late System-Wide Change proposal)

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Linux_Firmware_Minimization This document represents a proposed Change. As part of the Changes process, proposals are publicly announced in order to receive community feedback. This proposal will only be implemented if approved by the Fedora Engineering

F37 proposal: Linux Firmware Minimization (late System-Wide Change proposal)

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Linux_Firmware_Minimization This document represents a proposed Change. As part of the Changes process, proposals are publicly announced in order to receive community feedback. This proposal will only be implemented if approved by the Fedora Engineering