Adding a new x86 image or related packages to the default x86 image

[David Bauer]

Hi Daniel,
Hi Petr,

On 11/13/23 21:49, Daniel Golle wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 13, 2023 at 07:54:34PM +0000, Petr Štetiar wrote:
>> Paul Spooren <mail at aparcar.org> [2023-11-13 13:30:10]:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>>> How about we follow the approach of Alpine Linux[1] and offer a standard, an extended and a virtual firmware for the x86/64 target?
>>
>> FYI that pull request added 27 firmware ASIC blobs, thus increased x86/64
>> image from 10 MiB to 41 MiB, but actually just 1 firmware ASIC blob
>> mlxsw_spectrum-13.2010.1006.mfa2 (1.6MiB) is needed, so I would instead recommend to
>> fix that mlx firmware package and call it a day?
> 
> Thanks for pointing this out, increasing the default image by 1.6MiB is
> bearable on x86 and that alone does not justify the introduction of
> device specific images imho.

Sounds reasonable to me, regardless of how we want to
proceed with the x64 target in general.

Is there already a patch series / PR in the works?
Otherwise, I'd look into that.

Best
David

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