From: clayton@craftyguy.net
To: linux-firmware@kernel.org
Subject: firmware files located in root of repo
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2024 04:24:16 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240206042416.GB5111@craftyguy.net> (raw)
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Some distributions shipping linux-firmware (e.g. Alpine Linux) split the
linux-firmware project into multiple packages based on subdirectories in the
repo, e.g. /amdgpu might be in a linux-firmware-amdgpu package, to allow for
reducing the rootfs size. Distro images and users can install only the firmware
they need. Ideally, for this use case, all vendor firmware in linux-firmware
would be in subdirectories.
iwlwifi makes this more difficult to support. I called out iwlwifi because 1)
the collective size is large (~175MB, almost 20% of the entire linux-firmware
repo), 2) there are other "free floating" firmware files at the root of the
project but it is by far the worst "offender".
Is there a reason why iwlwifi (and other) firmware is in the root of the repo
and not in some subdirectory ('intel' ?) ?
-Clayton
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2024-02-06 12:24 clayton [this message]
2024-02-19 12:56 ` firmware files located in root of repo Josh Boyer
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