From: Mark Langsdorf mlangsdo@redhat.com
redhat/configs: Disable CONFIG_FW_LOADER_COMPRESS
Disable support for the new XZ compressed firwmware files.
Signed-off-by: Mark Langsdorf mlangsdo@redhat.com
diff --git a/redhat/configs/common/generic/CONFIG_FW_LOADER_COMPRESS b/redhat/configs/common/generic/CONFIG_FW_LOADER_COMPRESS index blahblah..blahblah 100644 --- a/redhat/configs/common/generic/CONFIG_FW_LOADER_COMPRESS +++ b/redhat/configs/common/generic/CONFIG_FW_LOADER_COMPRESS @@ -1 +1 @@ -CONFIG_FW_LOADER_COMPRESS=y +# CONFIG_FW_LOADER_COMPRESS is not set
-- https://gitlab.com/cki-project/kernel-ark/-/merge_requests/2112
From: Justin M. Forbes on gitlab.com https://gitlab.com/cki-project/kernel-ark/-/merge_requests/2112#note_1142154...
Why? Not sure about RHEL, but Fedora and ELN are shipping linux-firmware with xz compressed firmware files.
From: Justin M. Forbes on gitlab.com https://gitlab.com/cki-project/kernel-ark/-/merge_requests/2112#note_1142157...
/block
From: pbrobinson on gitlab.com https://gitlab.com/cki-project/kernel-ark/-/merge_requests/2112#note_1142159...
RHEL 9 also ships with compressed firmware.
From: pbrobinson on gitlab.com https://gitlab.com/cki-project/kernel-ark/-/merge_requests/2112#note_1142160...
there's no RHBZ or any reasonable commit message with this to document why.
From: Justin M. Forbes on gitlab.com https://gitlab.com/cki-project/kernel-ark/-/merge_requests/2112#note_1146671...
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1939095 Was the bug forcing this to be turned on in RHEL, so it seems that this MR is wrong for both Fedora and ELN/RHEL. Merging it would just break firmware loading.
From: Don Zickus on gitlab.com https://gitlab.com/cki-project/kernel-ark/-/merge_requests/2112#note_1146743...
@hertonrk-rh - you had to enable this for rhel-9 it appears. can you provide some background?
From: Herton R. Krzesinski on gitlab.com https://gitlab.com/cki-project/kernel-ark/-/merge_requests/2112#note_1146809...
Fedora enabled firmware compression. So when we inherited things for RHEL 9, the kernel had to followup and enable it, otherwise it breaks firmware loading. So yes, we can't disable it, otherwise it'll break firmware loading, as @jmflinuxtx mentions above.
From: Prarit Bhargava on gitlab.com https://gitlab.com/cki-project/kernel-ark/-/merge_requests/2112#note_1146840...
I've blocked the cs9 MR here: https://gitlab.com/redhat/centos- stream/src/kernel/centos-stream-9/-/merge_requests/1332#note_1146815721
From: Mark Langsdorf on gitlab.com https://gitlab.com/cki-project/kernel-ark/-/merge_requests/2112#note_1148048...
Closing this MR and I'll sort out the centos code.
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