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kms hook increases the initramfs size heavily starting with 6.7 kernel

Hi,

Since the 6.7 Kernel the NVIDIA gsp boot firmware gets bundled by mkinitcpio. This results into a way bigger image, then before (around 150MB more).

Here a example:

with KMS Hook:

.rwxr-xr-x 183M root  8 Jan 14:12  initramfs-linux-cachyos-rc.img
.rwxr-xr-x 183M root  8 Jan 14:12  initramfs-linux-cachyos.img
.rwxr-xr-x  15M root  8 Jan 14:04  vmlinuz-linux-cachyos
.rwxr-xr-x  14M root  7 Jan 18:11  vmlinuz-linux-cachyos-rc

without kms hook:

.rwxr-xr-x 8,5M root  8 Jan 14:53  initramfs-linux-cachyos-rc.img
.rwxr-xr-x 8,6M root  8 Jan 14:53  initramfs-linux-cachyos.img
.rwxr-xr-x  15M root  8 Jan 14:04  vmlinuz-linux-cachyos
.rwxr-xr-x  14M root  7 Jan 18:11  vmlinuz-linux-cachyos-rc

The fallback image for 6.7 has around 280MB of size.

Edited by Peter Jung
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