This patch enabled that we can compress any firmware files on disk. This
will save some space since /lib/firmware is becoming larger with every
release.
From formerly 828MiB, this is now using ~349MiB which is a saving of
about 480MiB on disk. This is helping us a lot fighting to contain the
distribution to 2GB on /.
Some other firmware that is installed in other packages is not
compressed with this patch which is a bit sad, but potentially not worth
the effort.
In order to ship this change with a Core Update, it might be intuitive
to remove /lib/firmware first and then extract the new update with all
new files. However, I do not know if this all will compress as well as
before since now the files are already individually compressed. It might
be a challenge to ship this.
Signed-off-by: Michael Tremer <michael.tremer@ipfire.org>
Core Update 158 specifically ships files that are new or have changed to
keep the size of the update down.
Signed-off-by: Michael Tremer <michael.tremer@ipfire.org>
Most of these files still used old dates and/or domain names for contact
mail addresses. This is now replaced by an up-to-date copyright line.
Just some housekeeping... :-)
Signed-off-by: Peter Müller <peter.mueller@link38.eu>
Signed-off-by: Michael Tremer <michael.tremer@ipfire.org>
