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Bug#960152: linux-image-5.6.0-1-arm64: Enable compressed modules

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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

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Bug#960152: linux-image-5.6.0-1-arm64: Enable compressed modules Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@debian.org> - 2020-05-10 01:20 +0200
  Bug#960152: linux-image-5.6.0-1-arm64: Enable compressed modules Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net> - 2020-05-19 18:40 +0200

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