Re: [PATCH v2 00/14] Add SPDX SBOM generation tool

Greg KH
2026-01-25T15:40:55Z

On Sun, Jan 25, 2026 at 04:33:28PM +0100, Miguel Ojeda wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 25, 2026 at 4:20 PM Miguel Ojeda
> <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > After all, the kernel image should not change at all whether there is
> > an SBOM or not.
>
> Well, I guess the SBOM could be saved into the kernel itself (and
> perhaps retrieved in different ways, e.g. at runtime), in which case,
> then an option definitely makes sense.

Ick, let's not dump the HUGE sbom json file inside the binary kernel
image itself, unless you want to do something like /proc/sbom.gz?

That would be funny, but a big waste of memory :)

greg k-h