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    Phoronix: Alpine Linux 3.15 Released - Builds Off Linux 5.15, Drops MIPS64, SimpleDRM For FB

    Alpine Linux 3.15 is out today as the newest feature update to this lightweight/embedded/containers focused Linux distribution known for its musl+Busybox usage along with OpenRC as the init system...

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    Typo in short description: Apine Linux 3.15

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    • #3
      Why use Gzip to compress kernel modules? Seems like an odd choice.

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      • #4
        Originally posted by sdack View Post
        Why use Gzip to compress kernel modules? Seems like an odd choice.
        Indeed. Zstd is much better these days. The next kernel will have new perf optimizations.

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        • #5
          Originally posted by sdack View Post
          Why use Gzip to compress kernel modules? Seems like an odd choice.
          No support in BusyBox for zstd?

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          • #6
            Originally posted by discordian View Post
            No support in BusyBox for zstd?
            How is it related? The .ko files are compressed by the kernel make scripts.

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            • #7
              Originally posted by sdack View Post
              Why use Gzip to compress kernel modules? Seems like an odd choice.
              Maybe compatibility? Zstd in kernel is a fairly new feature...

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              • #8
                Are they going to compete with OpenWRT? It seems interesting.

                I would like Zstd being used, among other stuff.

                What about musl vs picolibc?

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by caligula View Post

                  How is it related? The .ko files are compressed by the kernel make scripts.
                  But it is kmod that loads them and alpine uses busybox-modprobe by default.
                  Using zstd over gzip saves something like 1meg while needing 30meg to include zmod. Let loss overall

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by caligula View Post

                    How is it related? The .ko files are compressed by the kernel make scripts.
                    The kmod/insmod/modprobe tools decompress the module. The kernel never does.

                    Doesnt seem to be much progress, but a patch for bb is available:

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