Re: XZ compression for the initramfs
* Ian Campbell <ijc@debian.org> [2016-01-01 17:46]:
> > How about custom kernels, though?
>
> In general wouldn't we say that people who want to use those are
> responsible for ensuring that it meets the requirements of the rest of
> the system and paying attention to changelog+NEWS etc?
I agree with Ian, although Ben is making a good point. I don't think
custom kernels is a big problem on this particular platform but I'll
add a note to the documentation.
> > I think we could add a new option of 'auto' compression which uses xz
> > or gzip depending on the kernel config, and make that the default.
>
> ... seems like a useful and sensible thing to be doing in any case, so
> ack to that idea.
Agreed.
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