On Fri, 24 Apr 2026 at 12:10, Steve Dickson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On 4/23/26 10:43 AM, Peter Robinson wrote: > > On Thu, 23 Apr 2026 at 15:31, Steve Dickson <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> Hello, > >> > >> I just did up upgrade of Fedora 43 and I got > >> the following firmware packages > >> > >> amd-gpu-firmware > >> tiwilink-firmware > >> realtek-firmware > >> qcom-wwan-firmware > >> nvidia-gpu-firmware > >> linux-firmware > >> iwlwifi-mvm-firmware > >> libertas-firmware > >> mt7xxx-firmware > >> atheros-firmware > >> iwlwifi-mld-firmware > >> brcmfmac-firmware > >> cirrus-audio-firmware > >> intel-audio-firmware > >> iwlegacy-firmware > >> intel-gpu-firmware > >> > >> The machine is a Intel NUC (12 core Intel(R) Core(TM) > >> i7-10710U CPU @ 1.10GHz) > >> > >> So do I really need firmware for amd-gpu or brcmfmac or iwlegacy > >> etc... > >> > >> The bottom line... Do I really need all these firmware packages? > > > > No, you don't, they are generally pulled in with installers to ensure > > HW works, but they're soft deps and depending on you HW most can be > > removed. > > > > The fact they are pulled in as part of an upgrade is interesting, they > > were split out into sub-packages a long time ago and I don't believe > > should have been pulled in on upgrade although the "upgrade of Fedora > > 43" is quite generic, were you upgrading to F-43 from an older > > release, or just F-43 stable updates? > No... my apologies I miss-spoke it was a dnf update [1] > not and upgrade... > > The strange thing is when I did the same update [1] on my Lenovo laptop > the those packages were not installed...
So the packages are Recommends so if you have weak deps enabled/disabled it will affect what happens. -- _______________________________________________ kernel mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://forge.fedoraproject.org/infra/tickets/issues/new
