Hi, Jonathan Kamens <jik@kamens.us> (2024-07-21):Something changed recently in testing which caused the size of my initrd to go up A Lot, e.g., on one computer from 70MB to 248MB. As a result my boot partition was no longer big enough to handle two extant kernels plus the new kernel files being built by an install, so I had to reinstall my laptop from scratch to grow the boot partition.Have you tried comparing before/after to see where this increase comes from? Checking the compression settings would also make sense.
Looks like a whole bunch of new firmware files were added:
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