On Wed, Dec 07, 2022 at 04:42:05PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:

I've moaned about the sheer amount and size of firmware blobs in other forums before, but 214M compressed is *really* obnoxious. We must be able to do something to clean this up (further than it's already cleaned up - this is *after* we dropped low-hanging fruit like enterprise switch 'firmwares' and garbage like that; most of the remaining size seems to be huge amounts of probably-very-similar firmware files for AMD graphics adapters and Intel wireless adapters). I know some folks were trying to work on this (there was talk that we could drop quite a lot of files that would only be loaded by older kernels no longer in Fedora); any news on how far along that effort is?

You only need network / wifi firmware blobs (although I'm sure they are in themselves large) and then you can fetch anything else needed for the hardware including graphics, right?

Rich.