Hi, The package's been notoriously big (over 400MB installed!), and the demand of footprint reduction was demanded more and more. So I've been working on restructuring the kernel-firmware package. The current result is found in OBS home:tiwai:fw-compress3 project. Some highlights: - The traditional kernel-firmware.rpm is still provided for older kernels, which contains all firmware files in raw format in a single package. - The new kernel-firmware-all.rpm is created, and this is a catch-all meta package for sub-packages below; this one is available only for kernel >= 5.3, and will replace and obsolete the kernel-firmware.rpm. - The firmware files are split into a bunch of sub-packages (e.g. kernel-firmware-iwlwifi, kernel-firmware-media, etc), so that user can install only a small set of firmware files. Each firmware file is compressed in XZ format, hence these packages are supported only by 5.3 or later kernel. And each package contains Supplements rpm tag for module aliases that are generated from our current and past kernel binaries, so that the sub-package your hardware requires may be installed automatically via zypper install-recommends. What does this mean? After TW switching to 5.3 kernel, a fresh installation would have kernel-firmware-all.rpm and all kernel-firmware-* subpackages. You can suppress the full installation by manually choosing and excluding / locking, too, if you want to reduce the installation size. But as a first step, I guess we'll still keep the Recommends to kernel-firmware-all either in pattern or kernel binary rpm. Since these files contain the compressed files, even the full installation of all firmware files would result in much smaller size; from 400MB to 100MB. If you choose only needed sub-package, it'll be much smaller, of course. For systems upgraded from 5.2 or earlier kernels, the old-style kernel-firmware.rpm will be still installed as long as the previous old kernels are present on your system. Once after the old kernels are gone, you can switch to the new compressed / split kernel-firmware packages. It's still in development, so any suggestions / comments appreciated. Once after hearing opinions, I'm going to submit the package later. thanks, Takashi -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+owner@opensuse.org