Tuesday, 25 July 2023

Re: Reducing initramfs size and speed up the generation

On Sat, 22 Jul 2023 at 02:03, Steve Langasek <steve.langasek@ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jul 11, 2023 at 01:17:27AM +0200, Benjamin Drung wrote:
> > If you want to test it yourself, you can find initramfs-tools
> > 0.142ubuntu7bd2 for mantic in my PPA:
> > https://launchpad.net/~bdrung/+archive/ubuntu/ppa
>
> What blocks this from being uploaded to mantic? AFAICS the behavior should
> remain unchanged for existing kernel+firmware packages, and it's therefore
> safe to push more widely.
>

I have reviewed this, and I approve of these changes. Please note,
that we need this uploaded in mantic, such that linux-firmware can
declare breaks on versions prior to this upload and switch to .zst
compressed firmware files.

As this will be the first upload of initramfs-tools that supports .zst
compressed firmware.

--
okurrr,

Dimitri

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