Re: [PATCH] unbreak booting with virtio

Glauber Costa
2009-07-31T23:33:11Z

On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 09:55:39PM +0200, Alexander Graf wrote:
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> On 31.07.2009, at 20:19, Glauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com> wrote:
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>> Since commit 89e671e3, extboot is broken due to wrong checksum
>>
>> The problem is that printf "\\$sum" syntax will require an octal
>> representation, so the fix I'm proposing is to convert it first.
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> Is there no easy way to tell printf we're on decimal? I don't have a
> Linux system handy atm, but I thought \90 was in fact a 90.
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> Either way, my only complaint would be to introduce a dependency on bc.
Not that I'm aware of.
But would be happy to know, too.