Bug#955469: initramfs-tools-core: Enable zstandard support
Am Mittwoch, 29. April 2020 schrieb Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>:
On Tue, 2020-04-28 at 04:43 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Wed, 01 Apr 2020 09:05:22 +0200 Norbert Lange <nolange79@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Package: initramfs-tools-core
> > Version: 0.136
> > Severity: wishlist
> > Tags: patch
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > there are Kernelpatches for zstandard initramfs support
> > available for several years, and will hopefully accepted
> > upstream soon.
>
> If the kernel doesn't yet support it, I'm not sure what the point of
> supporting it in initramfs-tools is.
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I see that the kernel support for this has been submitted recently,
though it's not clear which maintainer is being asked to apply the
patches.
It's been submitted multiple times over the years, I don't know the lkml workings, and apparently the author of these changes is missing some detail too.
Could you kindky point to what's missing? Sending the pull request directly (not cc) to a maintainer?
I use initramfs-tools (unmkinitramfs in particular) for zstd compressed initrds since years. The point would be that Debian is a nice distro for any kind of development, including homebrewn kernels for pet project.
And that zstd is hopefully getting enabled for initrd/kernel in the near future. It's not like this is an entirely new format.
Norbert
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