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Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2026 16:40:52 +0100
From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com>
Cc: Luis Augenstein <luis.augenstein@tngtech.com>, nathan@kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/14] Add SPDX SBOM generation tool
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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