[PATCH] doc: Remove README.sha1 file

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Sat Dec 2 19:26:41 CET 2023


On Wed, 22 Nov 2023 at 15:57, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The contents of README.sha1 only refer to process around verification
> of the pcs440ep board firmware in flash. The device was removed in
> commit 242836a893ae ("powerpc: ppc4xx: remove pcs440ep support") in
> 2015 so this readme isn't really relevant anymore so can be removed.
>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com>
> ---
>
> With the wide deprecation of sha1 in general we should likely also
> review the use of sha1 in U-Boot as a whole and look to move the
> remaining users of sha1 to sha2 or sha3 in general.

We could start by adding a warning in Binman when it sees this being
used in a FIT. I suppose we can't really disable the feature in U-Boot
since so many images still use it?

>
>  doc/README.sha1 | 58 -------------------------------------------------
>  1 file changed, 58 deletions(-)
>  delete mode 100644 doc/README.sha1

Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>


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