X86 generic snapshot increased image size

greybeard · December 15, 2023, 2:41am

Just ran a compile for x86 generic snapshot and the efi combined image gz size has increased from ~16M (oct 23) to ~49M (dec 23)
I haven't altered my build script/options since previous builds.
Obviously something has changed Q. is it intentional change (why) or is something broken?

make -j2 image PROFILE="generic" FILES="./files" PACKAGES="lsblk pciutils fdisk losetup f2fs-tools unzip tar htop irqbalance ip-full \
                                            -dnsmasq dnsmasq-full resolveip ipset uclient-fetch dmidecode atop netatop mtr-json \
                                            luci luci-app-banip luci-app-statistics luci-app-sqm luci-app-wol luci-app-fwknopd luci-app-watchcat \
                                            luci-app-wireguard luci-app-adblock luci-proto-vxlan \
                                            collectd collectd-mod-cpu collectd-mod-interface collectd-mod-load collectd-mod-memory collectd-mod-network \
                                            collectd-mod-ping collectd-mod-processes collectd-mod-uptime"

slh · December 15, 2023, 2:42am

github.com/openwrt/openwrt

x86/x64: image increased by 35MB after adding support for Mellanox Spectrum SN2000 Switches

opened 04:02AM - 06 Nov 23 UTC

DazzyWalkman

target/x86 bug

### Describe the bug Commit 3004c20614fdb29732f750417a578274a8ed988e pulls in d…evice-specific package mlxsw_spectrum-firmware, size of which is about 30 megabytes, into x64 image profile. Afterwards, all resulting x64 images built by image builder or buildroot include mlxsw_spectrum-firmware, thus size grow by 30ish megabytes. ### OpenWrt version r24315-ae500e62e2, or date back to any builds after commit 3004c20614fdb29732f750417a578274a8ed988e ### OpenWrt target/subtarget x86_64 ### Device Generic x86/64 ### Image kind Self-built image ### Steps to reproduce Download image builder from https://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/targets/x86/64/openwrt-imagebuilder-x86-64.Linux-x86_64.tar.xz Extract and run `make image` Similar result can be obtained by using snapshot buildroot, building default image of x86_64. ### Actual behaviour 35 megabytes or so space taken up by the mlxsw spectrum firmware blobs and related device-specfic files. ### Expected behaviour I am unsure the popularity of mlxsw spectrum device justifying its inclusion into the generic image. Even if there is less restriction on space, and (intentionally?) only one generic profile is kept for x86_64, it should better be in a separate device image profile, to save other users' time to explicitly unselect all related packages from image builder or buildroot. More so for similar devices with large kmods or firmware blobs. ### Additional info _No response_ ### Diffconfig _No response_ ### Terms - [X] I am reporting an issue for OpenWrt, not an unsupported fork.

greybeard · December 15, 2023, 2:51am

Thanks.
Note to self, learn to search github for bugs.

slh · December 15, 2023, 2:52am

You should be able to remove all those new packages using imagebuilder (it's a bit cumbersome, due to the number of packages).

system · December 25, 2023, 2:54am

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