On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 02:46:47PM +0200, Martin Kolman wrote:
I wonder if this can also help make the boot isos and installation
images smaller ? I'm sure they haver some firmware on
them. Or alternatively we could reduce the potentially quite meintenance intensive
firmware culling we do at the moment.
By itself, probably not since things are already compressed.
But when I was doing some experiments a few months back I discovered
that using the Bcj armthumb compression reduced the size of the squashfs
image by about 400k -- I assumed it was because a bunch of the firmware
is actually arm assembly but didn't look any deeper.
So if it's possible to apply arch-specific compression to them it may
reduce things slightly.
Brian
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