Re: Enlarging /boot and swap partitions

[Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net>]

On 2025-09-16 17:46:50 +0200, Erwan David wrote:
> Le 16/09/2025 à 16:35, Stefan Monnier a écrit :
> > > So I've tried MODULES=dep (and still COMPRESS=lzma and COMPRESSLEVEL=9
> > > as before). Now:
> > > 
> > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 122M 2025-09-16 00:43:13 initrd.img-6.16.7+deb14-amd64
> > > 
> > > But this is still *a lot*.
> > More than 100MB even with `dep`?  Wow!
> > 
> > My crystal ball says it's likely some big blob added to the initrd, like
> > `intel-microcode` likes to do, tho I've never seen anything that large.
> 
> I've seen this large with some graphic firmwares, amd IIRC

Yes, I can see in particular:

-rw-r--r--   1 root     root     38061600 Aug 15 14:51 usr/lib/firmware/nvidia/ga102/gsp/gsp-535.113.01.bin
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root     63571696 Aug 15 14:51 usr/lib/firmware/nvidia/ga102/gsp/gsp-570.144.bin
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root     23750944 Aug 15 14:51 usr/lib/firmware/nvidia/tu102/gsp/gsp-535.113.01.bin
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root     28542040 Aug 15 14:51 usr/lib/firmware/nvidia/tu102/gsp/gsp-570.144.bin

But since I have a Nvidia chip, I suppose that they are needed
at some point:

0000:01:00.0 3D controller [0302]: NVIDIA Corporation GA107GLM [RTX A1000 Laptop GPU] [10de:25b9] (rev a1)

But is it really necessary that such firmware be present in the initrd?

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