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From: Milan =?utf-8?Q?P=2E_Stani=C4=87?= <mps@arvanta.net>
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Subject: Re: Alpine installer firmare detection
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On Fri, 2021-01-08 at 14:03, antoniompini wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'd like to suggest a possible improvement to the Alpine installer.
> Alpine installs quite a bit of firmware and, after the instalation, I have to get rid of most of it.
> Debian installer has a nice script by which it detects and allows to install only the firmware which is really needed.
> It works remarkably well, and I haven't found such feature on any other distro.
> I think it'd be cool to see this implemented on Alpine, in keeping with the minimalistic approach.

something like this:
modinfo `lsmod | grep -v Module | awk -e '{ print $1 }'` | grep ^firmware

and search which of linux-firmware-$name contains them