Re: [arch-dev-public] linux-firmware package, some thoughts

2021-09-27 Thread Tobias Powalowski via arch-dev-public
Hi, short summarize from irc: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/CompressKernelFirmware xz -C crc32 is the only supported mode mkinitcpio needs to be patched: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/72263 >From my side unknown, if dracut and booster can handle compressed firmware files. greetings tp

Re: [arch-dev-public] linux-firmware package, some thoughts

2021-09-27 Thread Tobias Powalowski via arch-dev-public
Hi, according to google in 5.3 the xz compression was introduced so all kernels we ship should support it. greetings tpowa Am Mo., 27. Sept. 2021 um 21:54 Uhr schrieb Giancarlo Razzolini via arch-dev-public : > Em setembro 27, 2021 16:46 Jelle van der Waa via arch-dev-public escreveu: > > On 27/0

Re: [arch-dev-public] linux-firmware package, some thoughts

2021-09-27 Thread Giancarlo Razzolini via arch-dev-public
Em setembro 27, 2021 16:46 Jelle van der Waa via arch-dev-public escreveu: On 27/09/2021 21:13, Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) via arch-dev-public wrote: On Mon, Sep 27, 2021 at 8:30 PM Tobias Powalowski via arch-dev-public < arch-dev-public@lists.archlinux.org> wrote: Hi guys, lately did a l

Re: [arch-dev-public] linux-firmware package, some thoughts

2021-09-27 Thread Jelle van der Waa via arch-dev-public
On 27/09/2021 21:13, Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) via arch-dev-public wrote: On Mon, Sep 27, 2021 at 8:30 PM Tobias Powalowski via arch-dev-public < arch-dev-public@lists.archlinux.org> wrote: Hi guys, lately did a lot of archboot hacking and stumbled over our firmware package. It needs inst

Re: [arch-dev-public] linux-firmware package, some thoughts

2021-09-27 Thread Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) via arch-dev-public
On Mon, Sep 27, 2021 at 8:30 PM Tobias Powalowski via arch-dev-public < arch-dev-public@lists.archlinux.org> wrote: > Hi guys, > lately did a lot of archboot hacking and stumbled over our firmware > package. > It needs installed 750 MB, download size is 130 MB. > I tried to get it smaller and uplo

[arch-dev-public] linux-firmware package, some thoughts

2021-09-27 Thread Tobias Powalowski via arch-dev-public
Hi guys, lately did a lot of archboot hacking and stumbled over our firmware package. It needs installed 750 MB, download size is 130 MB. I tried to get it smaller and uploaded the archboot-linux-firmware package for my purposes. Our linux kernel needs only 180 MB installed size, download size is a