Article 57631 Now That The Linux Kernel Can Be Zstd-Compressed, The Next Step Is The Firmware

Now That The Linux Kernel Can Be Zstd-Compressed, The Next Step Is The Firmware

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With Linux 5.9 comes the ability to compress the Linux kernel image / initrd with Zstd for yielding faster boot speeds but at a compression ratio between Gzip and XZ/LZMA. Being proposed next with the widespread adoption of Facebook's Zstd is compressing the kernel microcode/firmware files...
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