On Fri, 20 Nov 2020 11:28:55 +0900 Masami Hiramatsu <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello, > > This is a series of patches to make the size and the checksum fields > in the footer le32 instead of u32. > > In the thread for alignment series[1], Steve pointed that the current > footer format didn't specify the endianness thus it is hard to apply > the bootconfig for cross-build initrd if the target endianness is > different from the host machine. > > I've proposed that the hexadecimal ASCII string in the previous series > [2] but Linus pointed that making it le32 was enough. > > So this just make those fields le32. > > Thank you, > > [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]/ > [2] > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-doc/CAHk-=wi9redsqogf06dvs2mp7tbp4qoiw8+xzzncdfjr3zo...@mail.gmail.com/ > > --- > I have this all tested. Is this something that should go into the current -rc release, or wait for the next merge window? -- Steve
