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hardware.firmwareCompression

Whether to compress firmware files. Defaults depend on the kernel version. For kernels older than 5.3, firmware files are not compressed. For kernels 5.3 and newer, firmware files are compressed with xz. For kernels 5.19 and newer, firmware files are compressed with zstd.

Declarations
Type
one of "xz", "zstd", "none"
Default
"auto"