[PULL][yakkety] Switch to compressed Image on arm64

[Paolo Pisati]

+1, makes sense.

On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 6:49 PM, Dann Frazier
<dann.frazier at canonical.com> wrote:
> BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1384955
>
> Building a 4.8-rc3+ kernel with the current Ubuntu config produces an image
> too large for X-Gene/U-Boot systems. The compressed Image is about 1/3 the
> size of the uncompressed Image, so switching to that will resolve the issue
> with some growing room. And, obviously, it'll save disk space on all arm64
> platforms.
>
> UEFI can handle the compressed image just fine. xgene-uboot systems
> (Mustang/McDivitt) can as well, as long as the uImage header has
> the correct compression flags. Until recently, this was not the case.
> uImages were always generated w/ compression=none flag. However, both
> flash-kernel and debian-installer in yakkety have recently been updated to
> dynamically detect the compression type and set the uImage flag correctly.
> After some bake time, I plan to SRU that back into xenial to be ready
> for hwe kernels.
>
> The following changes since commit 7b77e0d5f133eddf7da7e042dbd4b91fbdb25a6c:
>
>   UBUNTU: [Config] CONFIG_ARCH_ROCKCHIP=y for arm64 (2016-08-25 09:02:50 -0600)
>
> are available in the git repository at:
>
>   git://git.launchpad.net/~dannf/ubuntu/+source/linux/+git/yakkety arm64-zimage
>
> for you to fetch changes up to ac7a01f271a4da2092735a0fe2308d3f5e41617a:
>
>   UBUNTU: [Config] Switch to compressed Image on arm64 (2016-08-29
> 09:40:11 -0600)
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> dann frazier (1):
>       UBUNTU: [Config] Switch to compressed Image on arm64
>
>  debian.master/control.d/flavour-control.stub | 1 +
>  debian.master/rules.d/arm64.mk               | 4 ++--
>  2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
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p.