On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 04:58:47PM +0200, Michal Marek wrote: > > Hi, > > this series makes it possible to build bit-identical kernel image and > modules from identical sources. Of course the build is already > deterministic in terms of behavior of the code, but the various > timestamps embedded in the object files make it hard to compare two > builds, for instance to verify that a makefile cleanup didn't > accidentally change something. A prime example is /proc/config.gz, which > has both a timestamp in the gzip header and a timestamp in the payload > data. With this series applied, a script like this will produce > identical kernels each time:
Very nice stuff. Do you want to take the individual patches through one of your trees, or do you mind if the subsystem maintainers take them through theirs? thanks, greg k-h _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev