The needed flash-kernel changes landed in 3.98ubuntu2, setting to Fix Released. Should we start looking into building compressed linux-raspi2 kernels for eoan?
** Changed in: flash-kernel (Ubuntu) Status: In Progress => Fix Released -- 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: Fix Released 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