Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761238AbYBFVEu (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Feb 2008 16:04:50 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757328AbYBFVEk (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Feb 2008 16:04:40 -0500 Received: from agminet01.oracle.com ([141.146.126.228]:50024 "EHLO agminet01.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757250AbYBFVEk (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Feb 2008 16:04:40 -0500 Message-ID: <47AA203D.3010500@oracle.com> Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2008 13:01:49 -0800 From: Randy Dunlap User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (X11/20060719) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ian Campbell CC: "H. Peter Anvin" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: add a crc32 checksum to the kernel image. References: <1201815920-24669-1-git-send-email-ijc@hellion.org.uk> <1201815920-24669-2-git-send-email-ijc@hellion.org.uk> <1201815920-24669-3-git-send-email-ijc@hellion.org.uk> <47A24765.3070300@zytor.com> <1201856568.3804.8.camel@cthulhu.hellion.org.uk> <20080205170939.10085936.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> <1202331539.7333.9.camel@cthulhu.hellion.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <1202331539.7333.9.camel@cthulhu.hellion.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1120 Lines: 32 Ian Campbell wrote: > On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 17:09 -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote: >> On Fri, 01 Feb 2008 09:02:48 +0000 Ian Campbell wrote: >>> >>> +**** THE IMAGE CHECKSUM >>> + >>> +The CRC-32 is calculated over the entire file using an initial >>> +remainder of 0xffffffff. The checksum is appended to the file >> Run-on sentences. >> Use period (full stop) or semi-colon at end of above sentence. >> If using a period, capitalize the next word. Thanks. >> >> >>> +therefore the CRC of the file up to the limit specified in the syssize >>> +field of the header is always 0. > > Thanks. I went with: > > +The CRC-32 is calculated over the entire file using an initial > +remainder of 0xffffffff. The checksum is appended to the file; > +therefore the CRC of the file up to the limit specified in the syssize > +field of the header is always 0. Fine, thanks. -- ~Randy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/