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authorIan Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>2008-02-17 20:06:35 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-04-17 17:40:46 +0200
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x86: add a crc32 checksum to the kernel image.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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@@ -531,6 +531,14 @@ Protocol: 2.08+
The length of the compressed payload.
+**** THE IMAGE CHECKSUM
+
+From boot protocol version 2.08 onwards the CRC-32 is calculated over
+the entire file using the characteristic polynomial 0x04C11DB7 and an
+initial remainder of 0xffffffff. The checksum is appended to the
+file; therefore the CRC of the file up to the limit specified in the
+syssize field of the header is always 0.
+
**** THE KERNEL COMMAND LINE
The kernel command line has become an important way for the boot