On Tue, 2012-09-11 at 17:07 -0700, David O'Brien wrote: > On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 04:22:24PM -0700, Xin Li wrote: > > Please consider using sha512... > > What is the performance (boot time) impact on low-end MIPS and ARM > systems? > > I'm all for sha512, but don't want to be shot with a machine gun (vs. > simple pistol). >
For the embedded systems I take care of, the performance problem on low-end systems is likely to be solved by ignoring all of this angels dancing on a pin stuff and supplying an alternate kickstart mechanism appropriate to the way the system is used (which almost surely won't be in any national security datacenter). I can assure you that neither shaXXX nor gzip nor anything else that eats that many cycles will be involved. :) I just hope one of things coming out of all this is a reasonable mechanism for supplying alternate kickstart data. -- Ian _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-rc To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
