[GTALUG] Anyone else having issues with 6.9.12-1 kernel?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Aug 07, 2024 at 09:50:20PM -0400, Michael Galea via talk wrote:
> Thanks greatly, my initrd.img-6.10.3-amd64 was full of nvidia .ko files, but
> after
> =dep and reinstall, I went from 231M to 26M!
> 
> I'm still confused about one thing though. My desktop uses =most for 6.10.3
> but
> doesn't include the same .ko files.  Also, my module list is still different
> from yours.
> What is  initramfs using to decide what to add/subtract at initrd build
> time?

Well at least if your system doesn't have the nvidia drivers installed
and built, it can't include them in the initrd.

I have never actually looked at how the initrd decides what to do,
but I have changed it to MODULES=dep on systems where the size mattered.

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Len Sorensen