Re: [GIT PULL][PATCH v5 0/8] Add support for ZSTD-compressed kernel and initramfs

[Metztli Information Technology]

On Mon, Jun 1, 2020 at 2:59 PM Norbert Lange <nolange79@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> The series seems to be stuck in limbo, and I got the hint to bring
> this to Andrew's attention [1].
> Hope this will finally end in upstream, been using these patches for ~2 years.
>
> Regards, Norbert
>
> [1] - https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=955469

Began using your patch for Debian Buster backport of 0.136 initramfs-tools, and Nick Terrel's kernel patch for 5.6 -- but modified for 5.5.17-19 in my reiser4 builds -- and set both defaults to zstd.

Thus far, as long as there exists 'a priori' the Zstd package, the combination works in both local and my custom Google cloud instances installations.

Best Professional Regards.


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