On Thu, Aug 05, 2021 at 08:19:43AM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Tue, May 04, 2021 at 12:46:33PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > On Mon, May 03, 2021 at 08:51:15PM -0000, Reon Beon via devel wrote: > > > LINUX KERNEL -- > > > Adding to the variety of places where the Linux kernel supports making > > > use of Zstd compression, kernel modules moving forward can now enjoy size > > > reductions with Zstd. > > > > Is this email a proposed Fedora change? Might be best to follow the > > process: > > > > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/program_management/changes_policy/ > > > > This change, while probably welcome, isn't entirely confined to the > > kernel package. Various other packages consume/create kernel modules > > and so will be affected. (In my case, supermin will require small > > changes to cope.) So it should be submitted as a system-wide change > > IMHO. > > supermin change: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1990209#c3
FWIW, I've been playing with zstd-coompressed initrd images. With a large initd image, it shaves about 1 second from the boot time. I'd love to see this happen also for modules. Zbyszek _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
