Comment 2 for bug 819802

The last image I checked was about 100MB, so the DRM implementations represent less than 1%, although anything that can be removed from this is interesting, as 100MB is considered "very large" when compared to other base rootfs environments made available by other projects (e.g. TLIB).

In principle, there's no reason that Core couldn't be built for other architectures: although nobody has yet volunteered to care for the images for other than armel.

I'd be opposed to attempting to trim packages on an architecture-specific basis: while there are no current chipsets available that use Intel DRI and armel, there are always discussions surrounding any new SoC design, and Intel has previously produced devices supporting ARM instruction sets. Further, there are devices supporting ARM instruction sets that allow attachment of external bus devices, such as PCIe: while Intel does not currently produce a discrete graphics solution, there have been persistent rumours of such devices for several years. I believe there exists available hardware for all other included DRM implementations for all architectures currently in Ubuntu.