Hi,
On Thu, Dec 8, 2022 at 2:55 PM Adam Williamson
<adamwill(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
This is the direction Daniel was thinking down. I'm waiting for
someone
with more expertise to reply, but I suspect the reply is going to be
along the lines of "yes, we *can* do that, but it's somewhat tricky
work that involves thinking about lots of paths that aren't obvious,
and somebody would need to dedicate their time to working on that".
Presumably
we could package the firmware separately and just unpack it
into place from a udev rule when the hardware is detected?
But first, do we actually know this is a problem?
I think you're saying squashfs loads the whole decompressed image into
memory, but my expectation prior to your mail was that it performs I/O
on the usb stick (with a cache in between). If my intuition was right
and files only hit ram when accessed, then it seems like this is
pretty much not an issue, right?
Do you have stats on memory usage when running in a live environment?