[LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] LAR checksums

Carl-Daniel Hailfinger c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net
Wed Nov 14 01:21:45 CET 2007


On 17.10.2007 18:14, ron minnich wrote:
> On 10/17/07, Stefan Reinauer <stepan at coresystems.de> wrote:
>
>   
>> Maybe we should use 2 checksums, one for the header and one for the
>> rest. When walking the archive, only check the header sums. When loading
>> a lar entry or XIPing it, check the data/code itself.
>>
>> What do you think?
>>     
>
> that makes a lot of sense, IP made the same decision, interestingly.
>   

Alex? Do you want to modify your patch in that way?
Do you have any outstanding patches?


Carl-Daniel




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