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Investigate alternate compression for OTA images #290

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adeebshihadeh opened this issue Aug 8, 2024 · 0 comments
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Investigate alternate compression for OTA images #290

adeebshihadeh opened this issue Aug 8, 2024 · 0 comments
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adeebshihadeh commented Aug 8, 2024

OTA images are currently compressed with xz, which is slow to both compress and decompress.

def compress(fin, fout) -> None:

We should try all the latest compression tools with various settings to evaluate if we can get any improvements on compression, decompression, and size. Here's an example from a recent openpilot project:
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Note that we'll have to roll out compression changes carefully since the openpilot updater needs to handle the new compression.

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