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-build initrd if the target endianness is different from the host machine. So, this changes the size and checksum format to 8-bytes hexadecimal ASCII string as same as cpio. Since that is a string, we don't need to care of the difference of the endianness anymore. Thank you, [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20201118112249.30d20...@gandalf.local.home/ --- Masami Hiramatsu (3): bootconfig: Use hexadecimal ASCII string for size and checksum tools/bootconfig: Use hexadecimal ASCII string for size and checksum docs: bootconfig: Use hexadecimal ASCII string for size and checksum Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst | 6 +++- init/main.c | 20 ++++++++++---- tools/bootconfig/main.c | 43 +++++++++++++++++++----------- tools/bootconfig/test-bootconfig.sh | 2 + 4 files changed, 48 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-) -- Masami Hiramatsu (Linaro) <mhira...@kernel.org>
