Bug#864260: Missing kernel in debian-installer sd-card images for armhf (stretch)
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On Wed, Jun 07, 2017 at 03:29:04AM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> Karsten Merker <merker@debian.org> (2017-06-06):
> > I guess I have found the problem: the images have a fixed size
> > (~40MB uncompressed) and the netboot build has grown a few kBytes
> > larger than that while the hd-media build still fits (although
> > tightly). Increasing the image size should solve the problem.
[...]
> And I've also checked that bumping from 40k to 50k is sufficient to have
> a successful build of src:debian-installer (in release build mode: with
> unstable in debian/changelog, so building against udebs from testing).
>
> I'll leave you or vagrant push an updated value once you agree on
> something.
Vagrant Cascadian wrote (in another mail):
> I'd like to gently push for making it even larger, say 100MB. when
> debugging different kernel versions, it's often helpful to be able to
> append all modules to the initrd.gz, which can result in ~30MB+ initrd
> images, which usually means an extra step to copy all the files onto
> another partition, rather than copying them in-place...
>
> There are very few (micro)SD cards or USB sticks that can't handle that
> size, though I guess it would needlessly increase write times for the
> images to write the extra empty space...
I have done test builds with both 50MB and 100MB raw image size.
The difference in the resulting compressed binary size is less
than 60kBytes, so that shouldn't pose a problem even for people
on very-low-bandwidth internet connections. I suppose the
additional write time to the target medium also isn't much of a
problem either. On modern SD cards, linear write rates are nearly
always larger than 5MB per second (even cheap SD cards nowadays
commonly reach nearly 10MB/s on linear writes), so setting the
image size to 100MB costs at most 10 seconds of extra write time.
That shouldn't be a problem even for CI systems that do lots of
image writes.
If the size increase eases debugging, I think it is worth that
cost, so I'll commit a change to ~100MB to d-i git.
Regards,
Karsten
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