On Wed, 2025-10-01 at 13:36 -0400, Chris Murphy wrote: > we're stuck with the explosive increase in size of all firmware > generally, but this time around nvidia really got a lot bigger due to > the addition of just a couple of firmware files.
Just out of interest (since I only have NVidia on an ancient laptop), they used to have separate packages for different families of cards, and I would assume that new firmware would only be included for the relevant cards. I wouldn't have thought that made for a huge increase unless a package support code for a plethora of cards. Are they including firmware updates inside driver packages? And is that re-flashing the firmware in cards (I couldn't see that necessitating an increased initramfs, that could just be something that ran when the package installed), or are they simply loading new code as the OS boots, each time? -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.119.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 4 14:43:51 UTC 2024 x86_64 (yes, this is the output from uname for this PC when I posted) Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. -- _______________________________________________ users 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://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
