On Sun, Jul 14, 2019 at 4:06 AM Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Saturday, 13 July 2019 18:42:27 BST Jack wrote:
> >
> > If linux-firmware is emerged with the savedconfig use flag, then only
> > the firmware not deleted from the config file is left.
>
> Yes.  I used to do this, but gave up after a while.


Kernel 5.3 is getting the ability to load .xz compressed firmware, so
/lib/firmware goes from 460MB to under 80MB.