On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 03:31:19PM -0500, Vivek Goyal wrote: > On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 10:56:44AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > [..] > > So no. The PE file thing makes no sense what-so-ever. What you mention > > we can already do, and we already do it *better*. > > IIUC, PE/COFF signature verification bits can be useful for verifying > the signature of PE/COFF signed bzImage. This verification will be > required before kexec decides to load the kernel.
Only if the kexec validation's being done in kernel. We'd need agreement on that before it's a justification. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
