[PATCH 0/3] KEXEC_SIG with appended signature

Philipp Rudo prudo at redhat.com
Thu Nov 25 20:14:12 AEDT 2021


Hi Michal,

On Wed, 24 Nov 2021 14:27:16 +0100
Michal Suchánek <msuchanek at suse.de> wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 24, 2021 at 08:10:10AM -0500, Mimi Zohar wrote:
> > On Wed, 2021-11-24 at 12:09 +0100, Philipp Rudo wrote:  
> > > Now Michal wants to adapt KEXEC_SIG for ppc too so distros can rely on all
> > > architectures using the same mechanism and thus reduce maintenance cost.
> > > On the way there he even makes some absolutely reasonable improvements
> > > for everybody.
> > > 
> > > Why is that so controversial? What is the real problem that should be
> > > discussed here?  
> > 
> > Nothing is controversial with what Michal wants to do.  I've already
> > said, "As for adding KEXEC_SIG appended signature support on PowerPC
> > based on the s390 code, it sounds reasonable."  
> 
> Ok, I will resend the series with the arch-specific changes first to be
> independent of the core cleanup.

could you please add the kexec at lists.infradead.org to Cc when you
resend the series. As this is kexec related I think it makes sense to
give them a heads up, too.

Thanks
Philipp



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