[LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] LAR checksums

Alex Beregszaszi alex at rtfs.hu
Wed Nov 14 01:40:40 CET 2007


Hi,

On Wed, 2007-11-14 at 01:21 +0100, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
> 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?

I have been way to busy in the last months, thus my silence.

I think I can prepare a patch this week.

--
Alex






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