Wednesday, 4 June 2025

Re: Splitting up linux-firmware

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.

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.