[RFC PATCH 0/3] bootconfig: Use hexadecimal ASCII string for size and checksum

[Masami Hiramatsu]

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/20201118112249.30d20147@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/

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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(-)

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Masami Hiramatsu (Linaro) <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>