linux-libre: Support module compression.

This commit adds support for GZIP compression for linux-libre kernel
modules. The initrd modules are kept uncompressed as the initrd is already
compressed as a whole.

The linux-libre kernel also supports XZ compression, but as Guix does not have
any available bindings for now, and the compression time is far more
significant, GZIP seems to be a better option.

* gnu/build/linux-modules.scm (modinfo-section-contents): Use
'call-with-gzip-input-port' to read from a module file using '.gz' extension,
(strip-extension): new procedure,
(dot-ko): adapt to support compression,
(ensure-dot-ko): ditto,
(file-name->module-name): ditto,
(find-module-file): ditto,
(load-linux-module*): ditto,
(module-name->file-name/guess): ditto,
(module-name-lookup): ditto,
(write-module-name-database): ditto,
(write-module-alias-database): ditto,
(write-module-device-database): ditto.
* gnu/installer.scm (installer-program): Add "guile-zlib" to the extensions.
* gnu/machine/ssh.scm (machine-check-initrd-modules): Ditto.
* gnu/services.scm (activation-script): Ditto.
* gnu/services/base.scm (default-serial-port): Ditto,
(agetty-shepherd-service): ditto,
(udev-service-type): ditto.
* gnu/system/image.scm (gcrypt-sqlite3&co): Ditto.
* gnu/system/linux-initrd.scm (flat-linux-module-directory): Add "guile-zlib"
to the extensions and make sure that the initrd only contains
uncompressed module files.
* gnu/system/shadow.scm (account-shepherd-service): Add "guile-zlib" to the
extensions.
* guix/profiles.scm (linux-module-database): Ditto.

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/gnu/installer.scm b/gnu/installer.scm
index 5c3192d7a6..576ac90a4b 100644
--- a/gnu/installer.scm
+++ b/gnu/installer.scm
@@ -342,7 +342,8 @@ selected keymap."
     ;; packages …), etc. modules.
     (with-extensions (list guile-gcrypt guile-newt
                            guile-parted guile-bytestructures
-                           guile-json-3 guile-git guix)
+                           guile-json-3 guile-git guile-zlib
+                           guix)
       (with-imported-modules `(,@(source-module-closure
                                   `(,@modules
                                     (gnu services herd)