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From: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>
To: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Cc: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>,
	Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>,
	Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>,
	Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>,
	xen-devel@lists.xen.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] hvmloader: remove timestamp from vgabios
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2015 16:18:46 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1422980326.9323.123.camel@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54D0F202.2070209@citrix.com>

On Tue, 2015-02-03 at 16:06 +0000, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> On 03/02/15 15:54, 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.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
> > Cc: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
> > Cc: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
> > Cc: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
> > Cc: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
> 
> In this case, it would appear that the vgabios_date symbol is completely
> unused inside the binary.  Good riddance!

I think it is actually used because the string at vgabios_version
(deliberately) falls through.

Olof, you just removed the nul terminator used there AFAICT. At best
this means that the vgabios_copyright is printed twice.

Ian.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-02-03 16:18 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
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 [this message]
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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