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From: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH 2/2] powerpc/85xx: verify the device tree before booting Linux
Date: Tue, 3 May 2011 17:25:12 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DC080C8.5000109@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110503172042.0696d263@schlenkerla.am.freescale.net>

Scott Wood wrote:
> This seems to have a higher potential for false positives than a checksum.

As a compromise, if the verify function thinks that there could be a false
positive, then it can display a warning and return success.

Frankly, though, if the there's a mismatch with the CCSR base address, then
there's not much room for false positives.

-- 
Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale

  reply	other threads:[~2011-05-03 22:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-02 16:31 [U-Boot] [PATCH 1/2] fdt: introduce fdt_verify_alias_address() and fdt_get_base_address() Timur Tabi
2011-05-02 16:31 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 2/2] powerpc/85xx: verify the device tree before booting Linux Timur Tabi
2011-05-03 14:21   ` Kumar Gala
2011-05-03 14:41     ` Timur Tabi
2011-05-03 15:10       ` Kumar Gala
2011-05-03 22:20         ` Scott Wood
2011-05-03 22:25           ` Timur Tabi [this message]
2011-05-04 13:40           ` Kumar Gala
2011-05-04 13:42             ` Timur Tabi

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