On 2017-02-15 19:50, Jan Kiszka wrote: > On 2017-02-15 19:46, Andy Shevchenko wrote: >> On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 8:14 PM, Jan Kiszka <jan.kis...@siemens.com> wrote: >>> See patch 2 for the background. >>> >>> Series has been tested on the Galileo Gen2, to exclude regressions, with >>> a firmware.cap without security header and the SIMATIC IOT2040 which >>> requires the header because of its mandatory secure boot. >> >> Briefly looking to the code it looks like a real hack. >> Sorry, but it would be carefully (re-)designed. > > The interface that the firmware provides us? That should have been done > differently, I agree, but I'm not too much into those firmware details, > specifically when it comes to signatures. > > The Linux code was designed around that suboptimal situation. If there > are better ideas, I'm all ears. >
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