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to bug-guix@gnu.org: bug#77092; Package guix.
(Tue, 18 Mar 2025 05:59:03 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).
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to Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>:
New bug report received and forwarded. Copy sent to bug-guix@gnu.org.
(Tue, 18 Mar 2025 05:59:03 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).
Hi,
Our 'qemu' package currently bundles a vast amount of UEFI and other
firmwares (216 MiB), see:
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$ du -sh /gnu/store/zgyb8wa7ac1s3m9fprcm3qgfklam7ify-qemu-9.1.3/share/qemu
216M /gnu/store/zgyb8wa7ac1s3m9fprcm3qgfklam7ify-qemu-9.1.3/share/qemu
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Ideally we should unbundle at least the EDK2 UEFI firmwares at least,
which are quite large:
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$ du -s /gnu/store/zgyb8wa7ac1s3m9fprcm3qgfklam7ify-qemu-9.1.3/share/qemu/* | sort -rn
65536 /gnu/store/zgyb8wa7ac1s3m9fprcm3qgfklam7ify-qemu-9.1.3/share/qemu/edk2-arm-code.fd
65536 /gnu/store/zgyb8wa7ac1s3m9fprcm3qgfklam7ify-qemu-9.1.3/share/qemu/edk2-aarch64-code.fd
32768 /gnu/store/zgyb8wa7ac1s3m9fprcm3qgfklam7ify-qemu-9.1.3/share/qemu/edk2-riscv-vars.fd
32768 /gnu/store/zgyb8wa7ac1s3m9fprcm3qgfklam7ify-qemu-9.1.3/share/qemu/edk2-riscv-code.fd
3568 /gnu/store/zgyb8wa7ac1s3m9fprcm3qgfklam7ify-qemu-9.1.3/share/qemu/edk2-x86_64-secure-code.fd
3568 /gnu/store/zgyb8wa7ac1s3m9fprcm3qgfklam7ify-qemu-9.1.3/share/qemu/edk2-x86_64-code.fd
3568 /gnu/store/zgyb8wa7ac1s3m9fprcm3qgfklam7ify-qemu-9.1.3/share/qemu/edk2-i386-secure-code.fd
3568 /gnu/store/zgyb8wa7ac1s3m9fprcm3qgfklam7ify-qemu-9.1.3/share/qemu/edk2-i386-code.fd
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Thanks,
Maxim
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