Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: initramfs buffer spec -- second draft | From | (Eric W. Biederman) | Date | 13 Jan 2002 12:55:06 -0700 |
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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?
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