On Thu, 2022-12-08 at 16:04 +0000, Peter Robinson wrote:
On Thu, Dec 8, 2022 at 3:54 PM Miroslav Suchý
<msuchy(a)redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Dne 08. 12. 22 v 13:58 Peter Robinson napsal(a):
> > Ideas on how to solve that problem welcome.
>
> Do we need - at install time - firmware for:
>
> * v4l
>
> * dvb
>
> * cameras
No, and we're looking at splitting those out, but the fact is they are
a tiny amount of the overall firmware collection. You could even argue
either way for something like bluetooth due to it sometimes being used
by keyboards.
We actually already strip a lot of those in lorax. There are two bits
of lorax templates dealing with firmware files. First, we install "*-
firmware" but exclude a bunch of packages that have already been split
out to help with this problem:
https://github.com/weldr/lorax/blob/master/share/templates.d/99-generic/r...
then, in cleanup, we wipe a bunch of files that have not yet been split
out from linux-firmware but which we know the installer env doesn't
need:
https://github.com/weldr/lorax/blob/master/share/templates.d/99-generic/r...
so as I said, we're already dealing with the low-hanging fruit :(
Splitting the things currently dealt with in runtime-cleanup out from
linux-firmware would make things cleaner (I really hate runtime-cleanup
- it's sadly necessary, but we should minimize usage of it as much as
possible), but not smaller.
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