** Also affects: linux-firmware-raspi2 (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

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Title:
  compress firmware in /lib/firmware

Status in initramfs-tools package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in linux-firmware package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in linux-firmware-raspi2 package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Some facts:
   - The linux kernel has supported loading xz compressed firmware since 5.3
   - The size of /lib/firmware in impish is ~650Mb (and growing)
   - The compressed size of firmware could be ~230Mb

  It would be nice to install compressed firmware to save space.

  Here are the plans from the Fedora project:
  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/CompressKernelFirmware

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