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Punting GPU Drivers From The Initramfs Due To Ever Increasing Firmware Bloat
For now Fedora / Red Hat is not making any immediate changes, but the ever increasing sizes of required GPU firmware files is causing Linux distribution vendors to re-think including GPU kernel graphics drivers as part of the initramfs.
Red Hat's Hans de Goede has been exploring the possibility of moving GPU drivers out of the initramfs in order to reduce the size. So Hans de Goede has been exploring whether SimpleDRM or EFIFB can work out well enough for the initial boot experience while initramfs is bringing up the complete root file-system. For now no distribution-level changes are being made by Fedora / Red Hat but the matter of GPU firmware files bloating the initramfs is a problem that will need to be eventually addressed.
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