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

[Daniel Golle]

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.