From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
To: Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: add a crc32 checksum to the kernel image.
Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2008 13:01:49 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47AA203D.3010500@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1202331539.7333.9.camel@cthulhu.hellion.org.uk>
Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 17:09 -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>> On Fri, 01 Feb 2008 09:02:48 +0000 Ian Campbell wrote:
>>>
>>> +**** THE IMAGE CHECKSUM
>>> +
>>> +The CRC-32 is calculated over the entire file using an initial
>>> +remainder of 0xffffffff. The checksum is appended to the file
>> Run-on sentences.
>> Use period (full stop) or semi-colon at end of above sentence.
>> If using a period, capitalize the next word. Thanks.
>>
>>
>>> +therefore the CRC of the file up to the limit specified in the syssize
>>> +field of the header is always 0.
>
> Thanks. I went with:
>
> +The CRC-32 is calculated over the entire file using an initial
> +remainder of 0xffffffff. The checksum is appended to the file;
> +therefore the CRC of the file up to the limit specified in the syssize
> +field of the header is always 0.
Fine, thanks.
--
~Randy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-06 21:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-31 21:45 [PATCH] x86: define OBJCOPYFLAGS explicitly for each target Ian Campbell
2008-01-31 21:45 ` [PATCH] x86: use ELF format in compressed images Ian Campbell
2008-01-31 21:45 ` [PATCH] x86: add a crc32 checksum to the kernel image Ian Campbell
2008-01-31 21:45 ` [PATCH] x86: bump image header to version 2.08 Ian Campbell
2008-01-31 22:10 ` [PATCH] x86: add a crc32 checksum to the kernel image H. Peter Anvin
2008-02-01 0:23 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-02-01 9:02 ` Ian Campbell
2008-02-01 13:07 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-02-06 1:09 ` Randy Dunlap
2008-02-06 20:58 ` Ian Campbell
2008-02-06 21:01 ` Randy Dunlap [this message]
2008-02-01 0:43 ` David Newall
2008-02-01 1:16 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-02-01 5:46 ` David Newall
2008-02-01 10:58 ` Ian Campbell
2008-01-31 21:45 ` [PATCH] x86: use ELF format in compressed images Ian Campbell
2008-01-31 22:45 ` [PATCH] x86: define OBJCOPYFLAGS explicitly for each target Ingo Molnar
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