From: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>
To: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
Cc: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>, Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>,
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
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] hvmloader: remove timestamp from vgabios
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2015 16:28:27 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1422980907.9323.126.camel@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54D102B6020000780005C7EF@mail.emea.novell.com>
On Tue, 2015-02-03 at 16:17 +0000, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >>> On 03.02.15 at 17:06, <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com> 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!
>
> Let's hope there are no tools scanning the BIOS image for a date
> string.
That occurred to me too and I forgot to mention it, it looks vaguely
like this stuff is trying to conform to something or other (e.g.
specific offset and some things which look a bit like signatures),
probably some ancient PC spec?
Ian.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-02-03 16:28 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 [this message]
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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