It is possible to delete linux-firmware-amdgpu package ?

Succulent of your garden · 2025-12-19 15:26:35

So I recently switch my AMD gpu to and nvidia one and I was making the deletion of All ROCm + AMD stuff. But this is the only packages that is left doing and pacman -Q | grep amd:

linux-firmware-amdgpu 20251125-2

When I try to uninstall it with sudo pacman -Rs linux-firmware-amdgpu it shows this:

checking dependencies...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: removing linux-firmware-amdgpu breaks dependency 'linux-firmware-amdgpu' required by linux-firmware

I remember that in this year a change was made into linux-firmware and how it works: https://archlinux.org/news/linux-firmwa … ervention/

It is possible to uninstall this package from my system ? since currently now in this computer there is not hardware related to amd.

Scimmia · 2025-12-19 15:28:59

The linux-firmware package itself is only there for convenience, to pull in most of what the old package contained. There's no need to have that installed, and once that is gone, you can remove whatever you'd like with dep issues.

system72 · 2025-12-19 15:29:09

you can remove it with -Rdd and really no harm would be done, or just uninstall the meta package and handpick your firmware packages

Succulent of your garden · 2025-12-19 15:47:15

So one possible solution could be:

sudo pacman -Rs linux-firmware and then sudo pacman -S linux-firmware-nvidia to just have the nvidia things right ? as I'm noticing here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Linux_firmware

I'm also in a particular setup: Since I have now the blackwell gpu but I also have an pascal gpu that I want to use for gpus passtrhough into virtual machines. I talked that in a post some time ago https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=305746 , but I'm not sure if I not installed the meta package the pascal gpu base would work in my VM. I mean I'm would do the VFIO passthrough to send the pascal one to the VM. Currently with nvtop only blackwell is notice by host system, but if I do the lspci the pascal one is showed. So I'm assuming if I do the passthrough right there should be no problem. What do you think about this ?

system72 · 2025-12-19 15:48:38

Succulent of your garden wrote:

So one possible solution could be:
sudo pacman -Rs linux-firmware and then sudo pacman -S linux-firmware-nvidia to just have the nvidia things right ? as I'm noticing here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Linux_firmware

yes but you would have to install other firmware packages for everything to work correctly

Succulent of your garden · 2025-12-19 15:56:42

system72 wrote:

yes but you would have to install other firmware packages for everything to work correctly

Do you mean installing the firmware packages for the pascal gpu in the VM or something else ?

system72 · 2025-12-19 15:58:25

well this specifically

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Linux_ … d_firmware

Scimmia · 2025-12-19 15:58:47

No, they mean that you may need other firmware packages for other hardware, intel, realtek, etc. Your -Rs command would remove all of that.

Last edited by Scimmia (2025-12-19 15:59:44)

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It is possible to delete linux-firmware-amdgpu package ?

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