On Thu Jan 9, 2025 at 5:08 PM CET, Raul Tambre wrote: > Source: linux-signed-amd64 > Version: 6.12.8+1 > Severity: wishlist > > Dear maintainer, > > Please enable FW_LOADER_COMPRESS_ZSTD. > Support for Zstd firmware files was enabled in initramfs-tools=0.143 after bug #1019412. > With default settings the compression time for Zstd vs Xz is 8s vs 135s for a difference of only ~50MB. > Which for me is the difference between "makes sense" and "too annoying to bother". I think 50MB is quite a lot. Compression of the firmware happens once (on Debian server(s)) and then 'everyone' downloads the compressed archive. Making 'everyone' download 50MB more *per packaged version* is not something to sneeze about IMO. Or am I missing something?
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