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Bug#1092603: Please enable firmware Zstd compression

From "Diederik de Haas" <didi.debian@cknow.org>
Newsgroups linux.debian.bugs.dist, linux.debian.kernel
Subject Bug#1092603: Please enable firmware Zstd compression
Date 2025-02-18 18:00 +0100
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On Tue Feb 18, 2025 at 5:19 PM CET, Raul Tambre wrote:
> In my case I have to install firmware from linux-firmware myself due
> to having very new hardware.  So not directly applicable to Debian's
> own shipped firmware but for some users it's still relevant.  This
> actually has been enabled in
> <https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/linux/-/commit/dfee9b4caabb60d008616f0a2875d069d4c82ea2>
> but the closer was missed before the 6.13.3-1~exp1 upload.

I think it's useful to enable FW_LOADER_COMPRESS_ZSTD which seems a bit
of a misnomer as it supports loading (=decompressing?) zstd compressed
archives.

My issue was that I think 50MB larger compressed archives, is a
significant increase and the (only?) benefit is that *compression* is
much faster (but that only needs to be done once).
Next to the additional distribution costs, I think we should also keep
in mind that not everyone has a 1Gb+ unmetered internet connection.

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Bug#1092603: Please enable firmware Zstd compression Raul Tambre <raul@tambre.ee> - 2025-01-09 17:20 +0100
  Bug#1092603: Please enable firmware Zstd compression "Diederik de Haas" <didi.debian@cknow.org> - 2025-02-18 16:50 +0100
    Bug#1092603: Please enable firmware Zstd compression Raul Tambre <raul@tambre.ee> - 2025-02-18 17:30 +0100
      Bug#1092603: Please enable firmware Zstd compression Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org> - 2025-02-18 17:40 +0100
      Bug#1092603: Please enable firmware Zstd compression "Diederik de Haas" <didi.debian@cknow.org> - 2025-02-18 18:00 +0100
        Bug#1092603: Please enable firmware Zstd compression Raul Tambre <raul@tambre.ee> - 2025-02-18 19:40 +0100

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