Disable module decompression by default
Now that all compressed files get moved to the early uncompressed CPIO,
there is no need to recompress kernel modules and their firmware with a
weaker compression. I.e. Arch's kernel modules and firmware are
compressed with zstd at level 19
, while mkinitcpio defaults to zstd's
default level 3
.
Having the kernel decompress modules and firmware upon loading them, instead of decompressing a larger initramfs image, also apparently improves boot speed on some slower CPUs.
This is a replacement for !344 (closed)
Edited by nl6720