Re: Enlarging /boot and swap partitions

[Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net>]

On 2025-09-17 00:46:27 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> 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)

Ther installation comes from the Debian installer:

https://wiki.debian.org/Firmware says

  Since Debian 12, the installer will automatically check for needed
  firmware blobs and add them as required.

However, I'm still wondering:

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

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