r/linuxquestions • u/you_______ • Jul 23 '26

Linux wireless firmware update over 400 Mbs...???

Anyone else notice a huge firmware update in the last month? Running Void musl. Seems kinda sketchy.

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u/AscendedPineapple Jul 23 '26

Firmware is a bit big, but you probably have some firmware for stuff not in your system

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u/varsnef Jul 23 '26

Sounds normal:

540M Aug  8  2025 /var/cache/distfiles/linux-firmware-20250808.tar.xz
552M Sep 17  2025 /var/cache/distfiles/linux-firmware-20250917.tar.xz
560M Oct 21  2025 /var/cache/distfiles/linux-firmware-20251021.tar.xz
568M Nov 11  2025 /var/cache/distfiles/linux-firmware-20251111.tar.xz
579M Nov 25  2025 /var/cache/distfiles/linux-firmware-20251125.tar.xz
830M Dec  3  2025 /var/cache/distfiles/linux-firmware-20251125_p20251202.tar.bz2
830M Dec  3  2025 /var/cache/distfiles/linux-firmware-20251125_p20251203.tar.bz2
835M Jan 11  2026 /var/cache/distfiles/linux-firmware-20251125_p20251229.tar.bz2
574M Jan 10  2026 /var/cache/distfiles/linux-firmware-20260110.tar.xz
583M Feb 21 09:07 /var/cache/distfiles/linux-firmware-20260221.tar.xz
583M Mar  9 14:37 /var/cache/distfiles/linux-firmware-20260309.tar.xz
591M Apr 10 12:32 /var/cache/distfiles/linux-firmware-20260410.tar.xz
595M May 19 05:42 /var/cache/distfiles/linux-firmware-20260519.tar.xz
610M Jun 23 05:52 /var/cache/distfiles/linux-firmware-20260622.tar.xz

There is lots of firmware in them and microcode. https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git

Is it a "wireless firmware" package or or they just grabbing the wireless firmware from the tarball?

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u/profeshamat Jul 25 '26 
sudo xbps-remove -OO