From 2f04c5f8a3063206c66fa69a346d2776b8074115 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Linus Heckemann Date: Wed, 8 May 2024 15:29:21 +0200 Subject: linux: always use xz for compressing modules The change I merged too hastily in #302300 increases the size by ~30%. This could be improved upon, but in the meantime let's go back to xz while keeping zstd-compressed firmware (only 4.4% larger) and _support_ for zstd-compressed modules. --- nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2405.section.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'nixos/doc/manual/release-notes') diff --git a/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2405.section.md b/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2405.section.md index c18f3af9219f7..b27d4c658bfec 100644 --- a/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2405.section.md +++ b/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2405.section.md @@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ Use `services.pipewire.extraConfig` or `services.pipewire.configPackages` for Pi - `system.etc.overlay.enable` option was added. If enabled, `/etc` is mounted via an overlayfs instead of being created by a custom perl script. -- For each supporting version of the Linux kernel firmware blobs and kernel modules +- For each supporting version of the Linux kernel firmware blobs are compressed with zstd. For firmware blobs this means an increase of 4.4% in size, however a significantly higher decompression speed. -- cgit 1.4.1