Paolo - so last time we talked about this, you mentioned that the arm64 kernel doesn't support decompressing the kernel on boot like the armhf one. Is that still the case? Since I have marked the linux-raspi2 task as 'Won't Fix' because of this. If yes, is there any way of having the same functionality of uncompressing the kernel on boot for arm64 as we have for armhf?
I mean, I guess we could still switch compression on and try to gunzip the kernel in u-boot, sure. But I'm worried that without a built-in decompression mechanism we might be breaking some user edge-cases. I left the linux-raspi2 task as Won't Fix also because I originally thought that we'd be doing the compression of the kernels manually on boot-partition content upgrades. But maybe this way is better indeed. Of course it would be best if we just had the same situation here as with armhf... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux-raspi2 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1808056 Title: vmlinuz is very large in arm64 -raspi2 Status in flash-kernel package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in linux-raspi2 package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: The debs are close to the same size: mwhudson@ringil:~/Downloads$ ls -l linux-image-4.15.0-1030-raspi2_4.15.0-1030.32_arm64.deb -rw-rw-r-- 1 mwhudson mwhudson 5398652 Dec 12 10:42 linux-image-4.15.0-1030-raspi2_4.15.0-1030.32_arm64.deb mwhudson@ringil:~/Downloads$ ls -l linux-image-4.15.0-1030-raspi2_4.15.0-1030.32_armhf.deb -rw-rw-r-- 1 mwhudson mwhudson 6640960 Dec 12 10:42 linux-image-4.15.0-1030-raspi2_4.15.0-1030.32_armhf.deb But the vmlinuz on arm64 is several times larger: $ dpkg-deb -c linux-image-4.15.0-1030-raspi2_4.15.0-1030.32_armhf.deb -rw------- root/root 6633048 2018-12-07 06:38 ./boot/vmlinuz-4.15.0-1030-raspi2 $ dpkg-deb -c linux-image-4.15.0-1030-raspi2_4.15.0-1030.32_arm64.deb -rw------- root/root 23914504 2018-12-07 06:38 ./boot/vmlinuz-4.15.0-1030-raspi2 This forced us to make the boot partition larger for the raspi3 b+ arm64 image we made. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/flash-kernel/+bug/1808056/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
