On Tue, 2015-02-03 at 16:17 +0000, Jan Beulich wrote: > >>> On 03.02.15 at 17:06, <andrew.coop...@citrix.com> wrote: > > On 03/02/15 15:54, Olaf Hering wrote: > >> Including a timestamp into the binary makes it impossible to get > >> reproducible binaries. Remove the timestamp because it carries no > >> valuable info. > >> > >> Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <o...@aepfle.de> > >> Cc: Ian Jackson <ian.jack...@eu.citrix.com> > >> Cc: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabell...@eu.citrix.com> > >> Cc: Ian Campbell <ian.campb...@citrix.com> > >> Cc: Wei Liu <wei.l...@citrix.com> > > > > In this case, it would appear that the vgabios_date symbol is completely > > unused inside the binary. Good riddance! > > Let's hope there are no tools scanning the BIOS image for a date > string.
That occurred to me too and I forgot to mention it, it looks vaguely like this stuff is trying to conform to something or other (e.g. specific offset and some things which look a bit like signatures), probably some ancient PC spec? Ian. _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xen.org http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
