This was fixed with version 11 of linux-firmware-raspi in noble; I don't
see a great deal of point in expending the effort to backport this to
mantic, however, so I'll set that to invalid.
** Changed in: linux-firmware-raspi (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed => Fix Released
** Changed in: linux-f
That kernel option was not easy to find, but it's working now.
FW_LOADER_COMPRESS=y
FW_LOADER_COMPRESS_ZSTD=y
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** Changed in: linux-firmware-raspi (Ubuntu Mantic)
Milestone: ubuntu-23.10 => mantic-updates
** Changed in: linux-firmware-raspi (Ubuntu Mantic)
Milestone: mantic-updates => None
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This bug was fixed in the package firmware-sof - 2.2.6-1ubuntu1
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* Compress sof firmware with zstd. LP: #1942260
-- Dimitri John Ledkov Tue, 29 Aug 2023
19:00:29 +0100
** Changed in: firmware-sof (Ubuntu Mantic)
Sta
** Package changed: linux-firmware-raspi2 (Ubuntu Mantic) => linux-
firmware-raspi (Ubuntu Mantic)
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Title:
co
** Also affects: firmware-sof (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Title:
compress firmware
Then setting ZSTD_CLEVEL in debian/scripts/install-firmware should do
the trick (needs testing!):
ZSTD_CLEVEL=19 ./copy-firmware.sh --zstd "${staging_dir}"
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Have you tried environment variables?
From the xz manpage:
ENVIRONMENT
xz parses space-separated lists of options from the environment vari‐
ables XZ_DEFAULTS and XZ_OPT, in this order, before parsing the options
from the command line. Note that only options are parsed fr
** Changed in: linux-firmware (Ubuntu)
Milestone: None => ubuntu-23.10-beta
** Changed in: linux-firmware-raspi2 (Ubuntu)
Milestone: None => ubuntu-23.10
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Both linux-firmware patches were accepted upstream. Upstream currently
does not set a compression level and has no way to specify it.
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** Tags added: patch
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Title:
compress firmware in /lib/firmware
Status in initramfs-tools package in Ubuntu:
All kernels need to support reading the compressed firmware files (even
after partial upgrades). See bug #2028550 for the kernel side.
linux-firmware needs two patches to correctly produce compressed
firmware files:
*
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-firmware/1addfae3b9a376ebbf39c0d05642394ebcfb9ee
Fedora's individual binary firmware xz compression plans seem to be a
success. They kept going and divided the package into many different
firmware packages.
https://packages.fedoraproject.org/pkgs/linux-firmware/
https://packages.fedoraproject.org/pkgs/linux-firmware/intel-gpu-
firmware/fedora-3
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
** Changed in: linux-firmware-raspi2 (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
** Changed in: linux-firmware (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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** Tags added: bloat firmware
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Title:
compress firmware in /lib/firmware
Status in initramfs-tools package i
** Description changed:
+ -- initramfs-tools
+
+ [Impact]
+
+ * linux supports xz compressed linux-firmware which saves disk space.
+ In focal, initramfs-tools only knows how to included uncompressed
+ firmware files (even when kernel supports loading compressed ones).
+ Newer releases of linux
This bug was fixed in the package initramfs-tools - 0.140ubuntu8
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* Cherry-pick merge request !26 to support xz compressed
firmware. Uncompressed firmware is preffered, with a fallback to use
compressed firmware files.
** Also affects: linux-firmware-raspi2 (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Title:
compress
** Also affects: initramfs-tools (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Title:
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