Re: nvidia vs nouveau driver and initrd.* size
On 2024-08-01 11:32:10 -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
> Vincent Lefevre composed on 2024-08-01 17:18 (UTC+0200):
>
> > On 2024-08-01 10:23:53 -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
>
> >> the bug fix should trim initrd size considerably before
> >> too long.
>
> > What do you mean?
>
> After package containing bug fix is installed, newly generated
> initrds will be considerably smaller that they were or would have
> been before the fix arrived.
There are no fixes for the current increase. I think that you got
confused with another bug. Let me explain.
On 2024-08-01 10:23:53 -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
> Vincent Lefevre composed on 2024-08-01 15:26 (UTC+0200):
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 69879473 2024-07-19 02:11:58 initrd.img-6.7.12-amd64
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 112644015 2024-08-01 13:01:40 initrd.img-6.9.12-amd64
>
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1076561
No, bug 1076561 is fixed. FYI, without this fix, the initrd file was
so big that the kernel package could not even be installed on this
machine. Now, I can install it, but the initrd file is nevertheless
much bigger.
If I understand correctly, firmware-nonfree got new drivers
for many Nvidia cards, hence the big increase; that's why
firmware-misc-nonfree was split:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1057786
But this is not helpful for users of Nvidia cards, despite the fact
is that in practice, one just needs a small part of these drivers.
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