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[dann frazier <dann.frazier@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

** Summary changed:

- flash-kernel should support compressed kernels
+ support compressed kernels on arm64

** Also affects: linux (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Also affects: debian-installer (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Also affects: debian-installer (Ubuntu Xenial)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Also affects: flash-kernel (Ubuntu Xenial)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Also affects: linux (Ubuntu Xenial)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Changed in: debian-installer (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Fix Released

** Changed in: flash-kernel (Ubuntu Xenial)
       Status: New => Confirmed

** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => In Progress

** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => dann frazier (dannf)

** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu Xenial)
       Status: New => Triaged

** Changed in: flash-kernel (Ubuntu Xenial)
       Status: Confirmed => Triaged

** Changed in: debian-installer (Ubuntu Xenial)
       Status: New => Triaged

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Title:
  support compressed kernels on arm64

Status in debian-installer package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in flash-kernel package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in linux package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in debian-installer source package in Xenial:
  Triaged
Status in flash-kernel source package in Xenial:
  Triaged
Status in linux source package in Xenial:
  Triaged
Status in flash-kernel package in Debian:
  New

Bug description:
  When building an upstream kernel using "make deb-pkg" and not any of
  the Ubuntu-specific kernel build methods (such as debian/rules binary-
  headers binary-generic), the resulting linux-image deb package
  includes a gzip-compressed kernel image (copied from Image.gz, not
  Image). When such a deb package is installed on an arm64 system (such
  as McDivitt) and flash-kernel is run, it always calls "mkimage" with
  "-C none", which results in a uImage that can't boot.

  The attached patch adds a check to the mkimage_kernel() function in
  /usr/share/flash-kernel/functions to determine whether the kernel
  image is gzip-compressed or not, and calls "mkimage" with the
  appropriate "-C gzip" or "-C none" option. I have tested this patch on
  McDivitt, with both standard Ubuntu 3.13.0-37 and upstream 3.18-rc1
  kernels, and it works for me.

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