Thanks Paolo! We'll do that once we have everything in place. For now Dave (the person responsible for Pi images) will do some tests to make sure we're able to handle all the upgrade cases. But what we think will have to happen is that we'd probably ask not to backport this change into bionic and xenial. With snaps lacking dependency handling, it would be too easy to actually cause machines to stop working - even if in our gadget snaps we support loading of both compressed and uncompressed kernels (with determining which case is currently needed), there's still the case where someone could update only the kernel and leave an old gadget snap. So we'd probably have to stick to uncompressed kernels for core18, only switching to .gz in core20.
-- 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: Triaged 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
