From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
To: Rene Herman <rene.herman@gmail.com>
Cc: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>,
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] romsignature/checksum cleanup
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2007 15:22:57 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <459EDDD1.6060208@goop.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <459ABA2F.6070907@gmail.com>
Rene Herman wrote:
> Jeremy? Is it okay to only check the signature word? The checksum will
> generally be done over more than 1 (hw) page... That "presumably"
> there seems a bit flaky?
Well, in the Xen case, where the pages are simply not mapped, then the
signature simply won't exist. In other cases, I guess its possible the
signature might exist but the rest of the ROM doesn't, but that won't
happen on normal hardware.
J
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-05 23:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-24 21:15 [PATCH] romsignature/checksum cleanup Rene Herman
2006-12-25 0:53 ` Rene Herman
2006-12-27 0:31 ` Rusty Russell
2006-12-27 0:45 ` Rene Herman
2006-12-28 0:32 ` Zachary Amsden
2007-01-02 20:01 ` Rene Herman
2007-01-05 23:22 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge [this message]
2007-01-06 3:46 ` Rene Herman
2007-01-07 8:59 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-01-07 9:02 ` Rene Herman
2007-01-07 10:20 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-01-07 10:47 ` Rene Herman
2007-01-07 18:07 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-01-08 2:48 ` Rene Herman
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