From 8c739f6a9c89e27a41846090600c247abf9ca4a5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kevin Mihelich <kevin@archlinuxarm.org>
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2021 10:02:34 -0700
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] use gzip for compression by default
---
man/mkinitcpio.conf.5.adoc | 2 +-
mkinitcpio | 2 +-
mkinitcpio.conf | 2 +-
3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/man/mkinitcpio.conf.5.adoc b/man/mkinitcpio.conf.5.adoc
index 3029811..1bd60c5 100644
--- a/man/mkinitcpio.conf.5.adoc
+++ b/man/mkinitcpio.conf.5.adoc
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ override the main configuration file.
Defines a program to filter the generated image through. The kernel
understands the compression formats yielded by the *zstd*(1), *gzip*(1),
*bzip2*(1), *lz4*(1), *lzop*(1), *lzma*(1), and *xz*(1) compressors. If
- unspecified, this setting defaults to _zstd_ compression for Linux ≥ 5.9 and
+ unspecified, this setting defaults to _gzip_ compression for Linux ≥ 5.9 and
gzip compression for Linux < 5.9. In order to create an uncompressed image,
define this variable as _cat_.
+
diff --git a/mkinitcpio b/mkinitcpio
index df8ead5..17eae23 100755
--- a/mkinitcpio
+++ b/mkinitcpio
@@ -413,7 +413,7 @@ build_image() {
}
validate_compression() {
- local major minor compression_fallback='zstd'
+ local major minor compression_fallback='gzip'
if [[ -z "$_optcompress" && -v COMPRESSION_OPTIONS && ! -v COMPRESSION ]]; then
warning 'COMPRESSION_OPTIONS is set without also setting COMPRESSION. Configure COMPRESSION explicitly!'
diff --git a/mkinitcpio.conf b/mkinitcpio.conf
index c07aa9e..4c0c571 100644
--- a/mkinitcpio.conf
+++ b/mkinitcpio.conf
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ FILES=()
HOOKS=(base udev autodetect microcode modconf kms keyboard keymap consolefont block filesystems fsck)
# COMPRESSION
-# Use this to compress the initramfs image. By default, zstd compression
+# Use this to compress the initramfs image. By default, gzip compression
# is used for Linux ≥ 5.9 and gzip compression is used for Linux < 5.9.
# Use 'cat' to create an uncompressed image.
#COMPRESSION="zstd"
--
2.36.1