The live ISO boots one kernel for every machine, and after the preceding commit
that kernel is linux-t2. Stock linux is then a second kernel nobody boots, plus
its own archiso initramfs, copied into both the ISO tree and the
size-constrained FAT EFI image — about 147MB.
It could not simply be deleted: releng's broadcom-wl hard-depends on linux and
is the only releng package that does, so pacman would pull the kernel back in.
broadcom-wl is a prebuilt module for stock linux and cannot load on linux-t2.
It has kept working until now only because of the bug the preceding commit
fixes — the ISO has been booting stock all along — so it is booting T2 that
takes it away, not this commit. Dropping the package only stops shipping
something that can no longer load. Nothing in the offline install needs Wi-Fi
in the live environment.
Both packages stay in the offline mirror and this changes nothing about
installed systems: linux comes from builder/archinstall.packages and remains
what configurator's detect_kernel picks for every machine that is not a T2 Mac,
and broadcom-wl comes from omarchy-other.packages, so install/hardware/
fix-bcm43xx.sh can still install it offline on BCM4360/BCM4331 MacBooks.
The removal is anchored so linux-t2, linux-firmware, linux-firmware-marvell and
linux-atm are untouched; verified against releng's real list.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
