[Mageia-dev] [changelog] [RPM] cauldron nonfree/release drakx-installer-images-1.64-3.mga2.nonfree

Wed Feb 15 14:21:33 CET 2012

On 15 February 2012 14:04, Thomas Backlund <tmb at mageia.org> wrote:
+>> Well both stage1&  stage2 now expect XZ compressed modules.
+>>
+>> What's the issue on ARM? The kernel decompressor?
+>
+> yes.
+>
+> There are patches suggested/queued for 3.4 to get full XZ support for arm so
+> maybe we can backport them for 3.3 depending on how intrusive they are...
+>
+> Thinking some more about the issue, adding something like .[g,x]z to
+> to the module detection wouldn't be much coding at all and would cover
+> both compressions, wdyt ?
+
+For stage2, I've made list_modules.pm & modules.pm accept both.
+Same for drakx-installer-images (besides the gz->xz recompression
+(which BTW I dropped this morning)).
+
+But stage1 only handle XZ (modules.c::kernel_module_extension()
+It would need be adapted to try both gz & XZ (mdk-stage1/modules.c)
+Also d-i-images compress initrd as xz
+
+We could alter d-i-binaries & d-i-images handle both gz & xz,
+but I think it would be simpler if we merge those patches so
+that kernel support is the same across the architectures.
+
+Anyway, ARM support doesn't look up to date against ia32 &
+x86_64 regarding packages & the like so I think ARM port
+can wait a kernel with proper support.
+