NVIDIA and nouveau

Posted Oct 6, 2022 13:23 UTC (Thu) by flussence (guest, #85566)
In reply to: NVIDIA and nouveau by eru
Parent article: NVIDIA and nouveau

If they're encrypted as well as signed, we can forget about compressing them too.

I hope they don't end up part of the standard kernel firmware tarball. That's bloated enough as it is.

NVIDIA and nouveau

Posted Oct 7, 2022 1:17 UTC (Fri) by gb (subscriber, #58328) [Link] (1 responses)

All true, but nvidia itself should be interested in making smaller images.
So instead of providing N full signed blobs it could provide 1 Big blob and N-1 delta blobs, and load two files into video card, and hardware deal with delta, compression and encryption.
So it should be safe and small in size.

NVIDIA and nouveau

Posted Oct 7, 2022 18:24 UTC (Fri) by zdzichu (subscriber, #17118) [Link]

Why would nvidia care about size? Current setup works for them.