XPost: linux.debian.bugs.dist 
 From: ben@decadent.org.uk 
  
 On Sat, 6 Sep 2025 14:37:30 +0200 Salvatore Bonaccorso 
  wrote: 
 > Hi Paul, 
 > 
 > On Sat, Sep 06, 2025 at 02:06:37PM +0200, Paul Gevers wrote: 
 > > Hi, 
 > > 
 > > On 06-09-2025 11:42, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote: 
 > > > Can you please with lsinitramfs list the contents for both and 
 provide 
 > > > those for comparison? 
 > > 
 > > 
 > > Please find those attached. 
 > 
 > I had a look, unfortunately I think this is then expected. The 
 > majority of changes are from the firmware-nvidia-graphics package, and 
 > the package itself increased from 20250410-2 to 20250808-1 
 > substantially due to more firmare added: 
 > 
 > $ dpkg-deb -f firmware-nvidia-graphics_20250410-2_all.deb Installed- 
 Size 
 > 64591 
 > $ dpkg-deb -f firmware-nvidia-graphics_20250808-1_all.deb Installed- 
 Size 
 > 156283 
 > 
 > For instance the added 
 > usr/lib/firmware/nvidia/tu102/gsp/gsp-570.144.bin is 28M in size. 
 > Attached the diff I generated with some pre-subistitution for easier 
 > comparision. 
  
 The huge size and growing number of different builds of the Nvidia GSP 
 firmware are a real problem.  I don't think there's anything that we can 
 do about that in the firmware package.  However: 
  
 1. This is exacerbated by the fact that the nouveau driver declares 
 multiple versions of the GSP firmware for some chips with 
 MODULE_FIRMWARE(), but only needs one (per chip).  In the short term I 
 think we should patch nouveau to remove the MODULE_FIRMWARE() 
 declarations for v535.113.01 for chips where it prefers v570.144. 
  
 2. In the medium term we need to move to using generic framebuffer 
 drivers in the initramfs, but several packages have to be changed to 
 make that work. 
  
 Ben. 
  
 > If you might not need firmware-nvidia-graphics, then removing it might 
 > be an option an regenerating the initramfs. 
  
  
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 Ben Hutchings 
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