[OpenPower-Firmware] Fwd: Buildroot 2016.08 released

[Stewart Smith]

Joel Stanley <joel at jms.id.au> writes:
> On Fri, Sep 2, 2016 at 11:40 AM, Stewart Smith
> <stewart at linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>> Of interest to us:
>> - improved legal info
>> - BR2_REPRODUCIBLE
>>   - for secure/trusted boot, being able to reproduce binary identical
>>     PNOR image is huge.
>
> Note that this is a WIP. From the message you quoted:
>
>>  - An experimental configuration knob (BR2_REPRODUCIBLE) has been added
>>    to make the builds more reproducible (E.G. less differences in the
>>    binary output between builds of the same configuration). This is
>>    still work in progress.

Yeah - it'll be good to see where we stand though. While it may not
completely work out for the general case, we can probably get it to work
for ours.


-- 
Stewart Smith
OPAL Architect, IBM.