On Fri, 2016-01-01 at 13:03 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: > 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?
In general wouldn't we say that people who want to use those are responsible for ensuring that it meets the requirements of the rest of the system and paying attention to changelog+NEWS etc? That said, this... > 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. ... seems like a useful and sensible thing to be doing in any case, so ack to that idea. Ian.
