On Fri, 2016-01-01 at 12:22 +0000, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Thu, 2015-12-31 at 10:50 -0800, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > > > > [...] > > CONFIG_RD_XZ is enabled at least in jessie and stretch. > > > > Any objections/feedback? > > Given the above I wonder if we should consider making XZ the default in > initramfs-tools, if CONFIG_RD_XZ was enabled in Wheezy I'd say this was > a no-brainer, but Jessie was the first one. > > So the blocker would be whether we want to try and best-effort support > Wheezy kernels with Stretch+ userspace. I think we probably don't.
How about custom kernels, though? I think we could add a new option of 'auto' compression which uses xz or gzip depending on the kernel config, and make that the default. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings All the simple programs have been written, and all the good names taken.
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