[Pkg-raspi-maintainers] Bug#865069: Bug#865069: uncompress kernel images

[Michael Stapelberg]

Could you supply a tested patch which accomplishes this please? I only use
the Debian kernel images. Thanks.

On Sun, Jun 18, 2017 at 5:17 PM, Martin Schitter <ms at mur.at> wrote:

> Package: raspi3-firmware
> Version: 1.20170317-4
>
> the raspi3-firmware kernel postinstall hook should take care of
> uncompressing kernel moved to /boot/firmware. raspberry firmware can only
> handle uncompressed images (otherwise the board will hang and only show the
> rainbow screen).
>
> debians official arm64 kernel packages utilize uncompressed kernel images,
> but cross compiled custom kernels (e.g. by using 'make ARCH=arm64
> CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-linux-gnu- deb-pkg') will pack compressed ones in
> the linux-image*_arm64.debs by default.
>
> 'scripts/extract-vmlinux', provided by the linux kernel source code, could
> be used to decompress all kinds of kernel images.
>
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Best regards,
Michael
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