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initramfs-tools package

  1. Bug #1932329
  2. Comment #3

Comment 3 for bug 1932329

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Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox) wrote : Re: Benchmark if we can compress kernel modules

I like smaller install size.
In many cases we boot without initrd by default (gcp, azure, aws, kvm).
Does it then make sense to enable this for the cloud kernels?

I ponder, if i can hack initramfs-tools to append compressed kernel modules as an uncompressed cpio archive to the initramfs, instead of having it together with the userspace bits all compressed together.
Separately, are the modules signed, then compressed, or compressed then signed?
Cause the other alternative is to decompress the modules whilst including in the initramfs. That way we should get unchanged initrd sizes.

So I guess I need to hack initramfs-tools more.