From: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>
To: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Cc: Keir Fraser <keir@xen.org>,
Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>,
Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>,
Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>,
xen-devel@lists.xen.org, Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>,
Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] hvmloader: remove timestamp from smbios
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2015 16:05:28 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1422979528.9323.120.camel@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1422978845-5908-2-git-send-email-olaf@aepfle.de>
On Tue, 2015-02-03 at 16:54 +0100, Olaf Hering wrote:
> Including a timestamp into the binary makes it impossible to get
> reproducible binaries. Remove the timestamp because it carries no
> valuable info.
AFAICT this is changing the contents of a firmware table which is
exposed to the guest, so the changelog should come complete with a
pointer to the relevant spec and a discussion as to why this is ok to
omit from the tables.
I think you've also made the type 22 malformed, but you should check the
spec to see.
Ian.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-02-03 16:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-02-03 15:54 [PATCH 0/2] remove timestamp from hvmloader for reproducible build Olaf Hering
2015-02-03 15:54 ` [PATCH 1/2] hvmloader: remove timestamp from smbios Olaf Hering
2015-02-03 16:02 ` Andrew Cooper
2015-02-03 16:15 ` Jan Beulich
2015-02-03 16:23 ` Andrew Cooper
2015-02-03 16:57 ` Jan Beulich
2015-02-03 18:41 ` Olaf Hering
2015-02-04 8:34 ` Jan Beulich
2015-02-04 8:42 ` Olaf Hering
2015-02-04 9:04 ` Jan Beulich
2015-02-03 16:05 ` Ian Campbell [this message]
2015-02-03 15:54 ` [PATCH 2/2] hvmloader: remove timestamp from vgabios Olaf Hering
2015-02-03 16:06 ` Andrew Cooper
2015-02-03 16:17 ` Jan Beulich
2015-02-03 16:28 ` Ian Campbell
2015-02-03 16:43 ` Jan Beulich
2015-02-03 16:18 ` Ian Campbell
2015-02-03 16:23 ` Andrew Cooper
2015-02-03 16:29 ` Ian Campbell
2015-02-03 18:43 ` Olaf Hering
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