Re: Build Linux kernel to have comparable zImages

[Andrew Donnellan]

On 08/02/17 20:20, Lukasz Majewski wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> Maybe somebody can point me to solution to the following problem:
>
> Problem:
>
> I do want to be able to compare (with e.g. md5sum, sha1) two linux
> zImages. The problem is that Linux compiles in current build time into
> the binary. Hence, even two identical builds will have different hash.
>
> Why:
>
> I do want to do some considerable Kconfig rework and avoid situation
> where some option would be left not enabled.

You might want to look at 
https://github.com/hardenedlinux/grsecurity-reproducible-build, I'm not 
familiar with it at all but it seems to be somewhat in the direction 
you're after.

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