If the changes required are easy, they may be ready in a few days. Else it may take longer. BTW, has anybody verified if this change is worth the effort? I.e., has LZMA compression any advantages over gzip compression for kernel modules? I can test it if it's not too complicated. I mean I know how to compile kernel and run new one but don't know what's kmod is all about so you'll need to give some source where I can read about it bit more. When it comes to modules I made small test and result should be self explaining: ~/tmp/modules $ for DIR in `ls -1`; do du -sk $DIR; done
# unstripped 242644 236.95[MiB] stripped 123776 120.87[MiB] mo So the difference for unstripped modules is 20% less (than gzip) for lzma but for unstripped modules it's 8%. Is it only 8% or <antonym to only> 8% is question of interpretation in this case but generally compressing unused modules is definitely good thing. In my case modules in memory take 14MiB, so saving 180/80[MiB] is definitely a good thing even today when computers have tons of RAM.
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