linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] arm64: Allow packing uncompressed images into distro packages

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Message-ID: <85161bf4-543d-4583-9cb8-1ec43f8250a7@kernel.org>
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2024 01:51:26 +0200
From: Konrad Dybcio <konradybcio@...nel.org>
To: Bjorn Andersson <andersson@...nel.org>,
 Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>, Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org, Bjorn Andersson <quic_bjorande@...cinc.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm64: Allow packing uncompressed images into distro
 packages

On 20.08.2024 5:11 AM, Bjorn Andersson wrote:
> From: Bjorn Andersson <quic_bjorande@...cinc.com>
> 
> The distro packages (deb-pkg, pacman-pkg, rpm-pkg) are generated using
> the compressed kernel image, which means that the kernel once installed
> can not be booted with systemd-boot.
> 
> This differs from the packages generated by the distros themselves,
> which uses the uncompressed image.
> 
> Expand the newly introduced CONFIG_COMPRESSED_INSTALL option to allow
> selection of which version of the kernel image should be packaged into
> the distro packages.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bjorn Andersson <quic_bjorande@...cinc.com>
> ---

Reviewed-by: Konrad Dybcio <konradybcio@...nel.org>

Konrad