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| author | Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk> | 2008-02-17 20:06:35 +0100 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2008-04-17 17:40:46 +0200 |
| commit | 7d6e737c8d2698b63ad10fd75cc6793380395d0e (patch) | |
| tree | 5b5a828d807cab7dac05e1c7d80ac0262076fac6 /Documentation/i386 | |
| parent | 099e1377269a47ed30a00ee131001988e5bcaa9c (diff) | |
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/i386')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/i386/boot.txt | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/i386/boot.txt b/Documentation/i386/boot.txt index b5f5ba1ea66..05c24dfd7ec 100644 --- a/Documentation/i386/boot.txt +++ b/Documentation/i386/boot.txt @@ -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 |