[packages/linux-firmware] add todo about compressing firmware files

glen glen at pld-linux.org
Sun Oct 13 23:10:12 CEST 2019


commit 76512514e8a709cf153352af4be6887755e2a644
Author: Elan Ruusamäe <glen at pld-linux.org>
Date:   Mon Oct 14 00:09:14 2019 +0300

    add todo about compressing firmware files
    
    firmware: Add support for loading compressed firmware files. Currently
    the files in /lib/firmware counts up to 419MB, while they can be reduced
    to 130MB by file compression. Currently only XZ format is supported
    
    https://git.kernel.org/linus/82fd7a8142a10b8eb41313074b3859d82c0857dc

 linux-firmware.spec | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
---
diff --git a/linux-firmware.spec b/linux-firmware.spec
index ee5c7ef..c9ada5f 100644
--- a/linux-firmware.spec
+++ b/linux-firmware.spec
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 # TODO
 # - subpackages for various firmwares?
+# - (since 5.3) compress firmware: https://git.kernel.org/linus/82fd7a8142a10b8eb41313074b3859d82c0857dc
 %define		rel	1
 %define		ver	20190923
 Summary:	Firmware files used by the Linux kernel
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http://git.pld-linux.org/gitweb.cgi/packages/linux-firmware.git/commitdiff/76512514e8a709cf153352af4be6887755e2a644



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