On 2020-05-09 16:09, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > Package: src:linux > Version: 5.6.7-1 > Severity: wishlist > > The on-disk kernel modules take up a significant amount of the package > installation size, and most modules aren't actively used on any given > system. In debian-installer, the "on-disk" modules take up space in ram > during the installation. > > From the linux Makefile: > > # CONFIG_MODULE_COMPRESS, if defined, will cause module to be compressed > # after they are installed in agreement with CONFIG_MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP > # or CONFIG_MODULE_COMPRESS_XZ. > > I'm not sure how to enable it; I don't see it mentioned in any Kconfig > files. It does appear possible to manually compress the individual .ko > files as an alternative method, if that is somehow more flexible. > > > The kmod utility supports xz compressed modules since version 25-1 (26-1 > is present in buster, the current debian stable release). Unfortunately, Note that this is not true for the kmod udeb. For that a liblzma5-udeb package has to be created first. Aurelien -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 4096R/1DDD8C9B aurelien@aurel32.net http://www.aurel32.net
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