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Bug#1092603: Please enable firmware Zstd compression



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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