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linux-firmware package

  1. Bug #1942260
  2. Comment #0

Comment 0 for bug 1942260

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Glenn Washburn (crass) wrote :

Some facts:
 - The linux kernel has supported loading xz compressed firmware since 5.3
 - The size of /lib/firmware in impish is ~650Mb (and growing)
 - The compressed size of firmware could be ~230Mb

It would be nice to install compressed firmware to save space.

Here are the plans from the Fedora project:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/CompressKernelFirmware