Thursday, 5 June 2025

Re: Splitting up linux-firmware

On 6/5/25 1:07 AM, Robie Basak wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 02, 2025 at 07:43:01PM +0200, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote:
>> Swapping GPUs and other hardware typically is not synchronized with system
>> installation or upgrades.
>>
>> My hope is that when moving the NVMe with my installed system from one
>> computer to another it still boots into the graphical desktop and has WiFi
>> and Ethernet.
>

> Indeed it's a longstanding property of a default Ubuntu installation
> that does not use proprietary drivers that this is possible. Please do
> not break that.

It's been a very long time since there has been any modern hardware that
"requires" proprietary wifi drivers.

The only hardware I know of is Broadcom "WL" which is 15+ years old.

>
> Note that there are other packages in a similar category. For example
> both amd64-microcode and intel-microcode are reverse Depends (not
> Recommends) of linux-image-generic in Noble.
>
>


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