[U-Boot] About the CRC of u-boot.bin

[Andreas Bießmann]

Dear Peter Pan,

Am 13.06.2011 um 06:17 schrieb Peter Pan:

> Our product is used in a safety-critical situation. We want to make
> sure that the product we released is exactly the one we tested in our
> labs.

> Because our product is released in a checkout-build-release process,
> it is impossible to just give out the binary file we tested.

Why don't you just test the binary that was built for release?

> 2011/6/12 Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo.org>:
>> On Saturday, June 11, 2011 02:55:41 Wolfgang Denk wrote:

>>> No, as the image contains a time stamp that changes each time you
>>> build a new image.
>> 
>> i wonder if we should make this a config tweak.  some people (not really
>> myself) would like to be able to confirm the same result every time and the
>> timestamp is an acceptable loss ...

The build-timestamp is an quite usable parameter, if it is configurable it should be opt-out.

When I looked for the char *version_string I found out this is defined in respective architecture board.c. Shouldn't this be defined somewhere else to have always the same string?

regards

Andreas Bießmann