On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 4:30 PM Ben Cotton <bcot...@redhat.com> wrote: > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/CompressKernelFirmware > > == Summary == > Compress Kernel Firmwares to reduce on disk size > > == Owner == > * Name: [[User:pbrobinson| Peter Robinson]] > * Email: [mailto:pbrobin...@fedoraproject.org| pbrobin...@fedoraproject.org] > > == Detailed Description == > > Since the linux 5.3 kernel there has been support for loading firmware > from xz compressed firmware. The upstream linux-firmware respository > is now over 900Mb, not including other kernel firmware that are in > Fedora but come from other sources. By compessing the firmware with > "xz -C crc32", the only option currently supported in the kernel, we > can reduce the ondisk size of the firmware by almost half. >
I vaguely recall that there was some effort to add zstd support to compress kernel stuff. Could we consider using that for this instead of xz? Or is that still only for kernel modules? -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
