mkinitcpio / linux-aarch64: remove default fallback preset

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mkinitcpio / linux-aarch64: remove default fallback preset

Postby Silhouette » Mon Jun 01, 2026 4:21 pm

When upgrading my system on my raspberry pis with 1GB of RAM, I recently started having the issue of mkinitcpio taking a large amount of memory, leading to an OOM situation that makes my machines unreachable for hours. This happens when generating the fallback image, and this is why I want to disable it.

The problem is that the /etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux-aarch64.preset file is automatically overridden on every linux-aarch64 package upgrade (without creating a .pacnew file), and mkinitcpio is called again immediately. This means I can't simply edit the file.

I am thus requesting to remove fallback in the linux-aarch64 preset file (owned by the linux-aarch64 package).

Note that [url=https://github.com/archlinux/mkinitcpio/blob/master/CHANGELOG#L180]mkinitcpio disabled the default fallback preset for the default kernel in v40[/url]. The change I'm requesting is to align with this.
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