Adam Agnew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The man you want to talk to is actually Bryan Payne (CCed). He would also > be able to supply you with all relevant source code for what we've done > and perhaps relevant papers from IBM. I'm glad you're interested in this > approach too, though we'll be using X509 certificate checking as well, so > our solution is much more complicated! Initially we've put this code into > the polled ide etherboot source, but will also move it into linuxbios > soon.
I'm more interested in catching data transmission errors. end-to-end checks for the loaded image, and an ip style checksum suck for a 2MB plus image. I am also very interested in standardizing how to encode the this extra information in an ELF image. Added functionality tends to be more accepted if it is more interoperable. For most people I guess etherboot really is the better piece of code to prototype with, I start with linuxBIOS because that is what I have to standardize :) I'll try to port my code to etherboot soon, for that reason. At this point it will be Monday before I check all of my code into the linuxBIOS tree. The more of the little almost trivial innovations that we can get into linuxBIOS (without wrecking it's strucuture) the stronger a case we will have for supporting it. Eric
