[PATCH 0/3] bootconfig: Make size and checksum fields le32

From: Masami Hiramatsu
Date: Thu Nov 19 2020 - 21:29:01 EST


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/20201118112249.30d20147@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-doc/CAHk-=wi9RedSQoGF06dVs2mp7tBp4QoiW8+XZzNcDFJr3Zo5gg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/

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Masami Hiramatsu (3):
bootconfig: Load size and checksum in the footer as le32
tools/bootconfig: Store size and checksum in footer as le32
docs: bootconfig: Add the endianness of fields


Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst | 4 +++-
init/main.c | 4 ++--
tools/bootconfig/main.c | 7 +++++--
3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

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Masami Hiramatsu (Linaro) <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>