On Sat, Jan 18, 2025 at 08:47:31PM +0100, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote: > hi, > > On Sat, Jan 18, 2025 at 04:33:19PM +0000, Julio Merino wrote: > > > In particular, there seem to be at least three things at play: > > > > * Release sets. These already have knobs for configuration. > > * Disk images. Compressed with gzip unconditionally. > > * Kernels. Compressed with gzip unconditionally. > > > > I do not know if there are good reasons for these differences, although > > I sense there aren't, and the reason sets support xz is because that's > > what made the most difference in final artifact sizes. > > (At least some) boot-loaders can boot gzip-compressed kernels > directly. This is convenient for checking whether hardware Y would > survive a kernel upgrade.... I think those loaders do not know how > to handle xz and might not have the resources doing that. > > So while there's an argument for xz for the sets, I argue for > the simpler compression method for kernels.
Ah, thanks for confirming. So kernels need to be able to remain gzipped. -- Julio Merino
