| Summary: | more fine-graned subpackages | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Jan Včelák <jv+fedora> |
| Component: | linux-firmware | Assignee: | David Woodhouse <dwmw2> |
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | unspecified | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | unspecified | ||
| Version: | 24 | CC: | dwmw2, jforbes, kernel-maint |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | Unspecified | ||
| OS: | Unspecified | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2016-04-25 12:21:35 UTC | Type: | Bug |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
(In reply to Jan Včelák from comment #0) > Description of problem: > > Currently the linux-firmware package splits only the firmware files for some > Intel and Marvel network adapters into subpackages. All other firmware files > are in the main package which is really huge. Most of the systems will > probably need just a few firmware files. > > Can the main package be split some more? Thank you for the report. The intel and marvell firmware packages are split out because they were originally all stand-alone packages that were folded into the main linux-firmware SRPM. We are not looking to split linux-firmware up any further, as it is tedious to maintain lots of subpackages all with their own versioning. |
Description of problem: Currently the linux-firmware package splits only the firmware files for some Intel and Marvel network adapters into subpackages. All other firmware files are in the main package which is really huge. Most of the systems will probably need just a few firmware files. Can the main package be split some more? Here is an example for an Intel Bluetooth device in my laptop: % modinfo btintel | grep firmware firmware: intel/ibt-11-5.ddc firmware: intel/ibt-11-5.sfi % rpm -qf /usr/lib/firmware/intel/ibt-11-5.sfi linux-firmware-20160204-61.git91d5dd13.fc24.noarch % rpm -q --qf "%{name}: %{size}\n" linux-firmware linux-firmware: 98177490 % du -c /usr/lib/firmware/intel/ibt-* 4 /usr/lib/firmware/intel/ibt-hw-37.7.bseq 24 /usr/lib/firmware/intel/ibt-hw-37.7.10-fw-1.0.1.2d.d.bseq 28 /usr/lib/firmware/intel/ibt-hw-37.7.10-fw-1.0.2.3.d.bseq 24 /usr/lib/firmware/intel/ibt-hw-37.7.10-fw-1.80.1.2d.d.bseq 28 /usr/lib/firmware/intel/ibt-hw-37.7.10-fw-1.80.2.3.d.bseq 4 /usr/lib/firmware/intel/ibt-hw-37.8.bseq 32 /usr/lib/firmware/intel/ibt-hw-37.8.10-fw-1.10.2.27.d.bseq 40 /usr/lib/firmware/intel/ibt-hw-37.8.10-fw-1.10.3.11.e.bseq 32 /usr/lib/firmware/intel/ibt-hw-37.8.10-fw-22.50.19.14.f.bseq 4 /usr/lib/firmware/intel/ibt-11-5.ddc 560 /usr/lib/firmware/intel/ibt-11-5.sfi 780 total That's 93 MB installed vs 0.76 MB needed. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): linux-firmware-20160204-61.git91d5dd13.fc24.noarch How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info: