On 2023-02-03 at 09:57, Felix Miata wrote: > The Wanderer composed on 2023-02-03 07:16 (UTC-0500): > >> FTLIW, my own primary desktop has an AMD graphics card (and has since >> before the initial Debian install), and doesn't have these large >> initrds: > > Oh, but it does.... > >> $ lh /boot/initrd.img-* >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 36M Sep 2 08:27 /boot/initrd.img-5.18.0-4-amd64 >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 36M Dec 9 07:53 /boot/initrd.img-6.0.0-4-amd64
...Huh. I must have lost the context of the sizes we were looking at, for this conversation. > Maybe you're used to seeing super-mega-bloated 88Ms on Ubuntu or > Mint? :p I think it more likely that I'm used to considering the sizes of initrd etc. for a live-environment ISO, which needs to be able to work on almost any hardware and so has basically all potentially-driver-ish modules and all firmware that any of those drivers might need. (It's a workplace thing.) Sorry for the false angle, but then at least this seems to confirm the *opposite* of what I thought it confirmed, although again I still haven't dug all the way in to see what the actual contents of the initrd are. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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