From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: initramfs buffer spec -- second draft
Date: 13 Jan 2002 12:55:06 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1k7umqb51.fsf@frodo.biederman.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0201122045540.24774-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0201122045540.24774-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu>
Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu> writes:
> On Sat, 12 Jan 2002, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > c_chksum 8 bytes CRC of data field if c_magic is 070702
>
> + or "00000000" if it's 070701. Kernel
> + is not expected to verify it in any case.
Why is the kernel not expected to check the data integrity? Usually
end to end data integrity is important. And a check on the data integrity
and tells us that either the bootloader or the hardware is messed up
can save hours of debugging?
Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-01-13 19:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2002-01-13 2:00 ` initramfs buffer spec -- second draft Alexander Viro
2002-01-13 2:17 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-01-13 4:11 ` Alexander Viro
2002-01-13 19:55 ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2002-01-12 8:04 H. Peter Anvin
2002-01-13 19:43 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-01-13 20:08 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-01-13 19:53 ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-01-13 20:11 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-01-13 20:58 ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-01-13 21:59 ` Alexander Viro
2002-01-13 22:35 ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-01-14 18:31 ` Kai Henningsen
2002-01-15 0:26 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-01-13 20:39 ` Alexander Viro
2002-01-15 6:34 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-01-15 6:34 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-01-15 6:54 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-01-16 20:40 ` Bill Davidsen
2002-01-15 15:15 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-01-15 20:03 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-01-15 20:16 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-01-15 20:14 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-01-15 23:01 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-01-15 23:47 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-01-15 21:04 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-01-15 23:09 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-01-15 23:48 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-01-15 23:59 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-01-16 0:29 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-01-16 3:33 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-01-16 3:25 ` Alexander Viro
2002-01-16 2:43 ` Aaron Lehmann
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