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| From | Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.kernel |
| Subject | Re: [RFC v2 3/7] firmware: port built-in section to linker table |
| Date | 2016-05-03 19:30 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <ruMj0-3Hu-3@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
| References | (2 earlier) <r7t5M-1ES-5@gated-at.bofh.it> <r7Bd1-6NF-39@gated-at.bofh.it> <ruqVd-dJ-57@gated-at.bofh.it> <ruLZE-3wI-19@gated-at.bofh.it> <ruM9l-3Bx-27@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| Organization | linux.* mail to news gateway |
On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 10:10 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@kernel.org> wrote: > On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 10:07 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@suse.com> wrote: >> Thanks! Can you confirm if any Android or Brillo builds are already using it? > > Also more importantly, any chance you can provide any technical > reasons why initramfs cannot be used, or it was decided to not use it > on these systems? It should help others in the future as well. In Chrome OS, the kernels are built specifically for the hardware they're going to be on, so an initramfs was seen as a needless additional boot step. Since Chrome OS was heavily optimized for boot speed, it was designed to not need the initramfs at all. This is actually enforced by the read-only boot firmware, so there's no trivial way to _start_ using an initramfs on (existing) Chrome OS devices either. -Kees -- Kees Cook Chrome OS & Brillo Security
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Re: [RFC v2 3/7] firmware: port built-in section to linker table Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2016-05-02 20:40 +0200
Re: [RFC v2 3/7] firmware: port built-in section to linker table Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-05-02 20:50 +0200
Re: [RFC v2 3/7] firmware: port built-in section to linker table "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@suse.com> - 2016-05-03 19:10 +0200
Re: [RFC v2 3/7] firmware: port built-in section to linker table "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@suse.com> - 2016-05-03 19:10 +0200
Re: [RFC v2 3/7] firmware: port built-in section to linker table "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@kernel.org> - 2016-05-03 19:20 +0200
Re: [RFC v2 3/7] firmware: port built-in section to linker table "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@kernel.org> - 2016-05-03 19:20 +0200
Re: [RFC v2 3/7] firmware: port built-in section to linker table Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2016-05-03 19:30 +0200
Re: [RFC v2 3/7] firmware: port built-in section to linker table Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-05-03 20:20 +0200
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