On 26/07/2024 at 13:27, Thomas Hahn wrote:
There was some changes with the firmware packages.
Yes, Nvidia firmware grew bigger (but not as much as the observed initramfs size increase) so they were moved from firmware-misc-nonfree to a new package firmware-nvidia-graphics, which is recommended by firmware-misc-nonfree so that existing systems which need Nvidia firmware are not disrupted.
firmware-nvidia-graphics was installed automatically on boxes which don't have a NVIDIA device in their system.
firmware-nvidia-graphics was installed on systems which already had firmware-misc-nonfree because firmware-misc-nonfree recommends firmware-misc-nonfree so that systems which rely on Nvidia firmware are not disrupted.
Doesn't firmware-misc-nonfree inform the user of this change on upgrade from a version which shipped firmware now shipped by other packages ?
This blows up the initrd images to almost 4 times the size.
This is not all firmware-nvidia-graphics fault but initramfs-tools 0.142 which duplicates some firmware files in the initramfs. Bug fixed in initramfs-tools 0.143, but the initramfs will still be bigger than before due to the increased firmware size.
