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mkinitcpio: do not use zstd compression for kernels < 5.9

nl6720 requested to merge nl6720/mkinitcpio:fallback-to-gzip-on-old-kernels into master

Support for zstd-compressed initramfs was added in Linux 5.9. Since LTS 5.4 is still supported by upstream until 2025-12 and SLTS 4.19 until 2029-01, add a fallback to gzip for Linux < 5.9 to avoid creating unbootable initramfs images.

Edited by nl6720

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