On Tue Feb 18, 2025 at 5:19 PM CET, Raul Tambre wrote: > In my case I have to install firmware from linux-firmware myself due > to having very new hardware. So not directly applicable to Debian's > own shipped firmware but for some users it's still relevant. This > actually has been enabled in > <https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/linux/-/commit/dfee9b4caabb60d008616f0a2875d069d4c82ea2> > but the closer was missed before the 6.13.3-1~exp1 upload.
I think it's useful to enable FW_LOADER_COMPRESS_ZSTD which seems a bit of a misnomer as it supports loading (=decompressing?) zstd compressed archives. My issue was that I think 50MB larger compressed archives, is a significant increase and the (only?) benefit is that *compression* is much faster (but that only needs to be done once). Next to the additional distribution costs, I think we should also keep in mind that not everyone has a 1Gb+ unmetered internet connection.
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