Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] bootconfig: Use hexadecimal ASCII string for size and checksum

2020-11-19 Thread Masami Hiramatsu
On Thu, 19 Nov 2020 12:42:34 -0500 Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Thu, 19 Nov 2020 09:36:47 -0800 > Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 6:31 AM Masami Hiramatsu > > wrote: > > > > > > Here is a seires of patches to change the bootconfig footer format > > > to use 8-bytes hexadecim

Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] bootconfig: Use hexadecimal ASCII string for size and checksum

2020-11-19 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Thu, 19 Nov 2020 09:36:47 -0800 Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 6:31 AM Masami Hiramatsu wrote: > > > > Here is a seires of patches to change the bootconfig footer format > > to use 8-bytes hexadecimal ASCII string for size and checksum instead > > of u32. > > Ugh., > > Ju

Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] bootconfig: Use hexadecimal ASCII string for size and checksum

2020-11-19 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 6:31 AM Masami Hiramatsu wrote: > > Here is a seires of patches to change the bootconfig footer format > to use 8-bytes hexadecimal ASCII string for size and checksum instead > of u32. Ugh., Just make it little-endian only. The _worst_ thing to do is to make it some kind

[RFC PATCH 0/3] bootconfig: Use hexadecimal ASCII string for size and checksum

2020-11-19 Thread Masami Hiramatsu
Hello, Here is a seires of patches to change the bootconfig footer format to use 8-bytes hexadecimal ASCII string for size and checksum instead of u32. In the previous thread for alignment series[1], Steve pointed that the current footer format makes it hard to apply the bootconfig for cross-buil