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

2021-09-28 Thread Morten Linderud via arch-dev-public
On Tue, Sep 28, 2021 at 08:34:45AM +0200, Tobias Powalowski via arch-dev-public wrote: > 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/7

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

2021-09-28 Thread Jonas Witschel via arch-dev-public
On 2021-09-28 08:34, Tobias Powalowski via arch-dev-public wrote: > From my side unknown, if dracut and booster can handle compressed firmware > files. For dracut this is supposed to work [1], though note that I haven't tested this myself on Arch. Booster seems to read the name of the firmware fi