Geoff Levand <geoff at infradead.org> writes: >> > It was reported that on some systems where purgatory is running >> > without caches enabled the sha256 calculations would take several >> > minutes. For bootloaders that just load a new image and >> > immediately jump into it the loss of the integrity check is worth >> > the increase in boot speed. Please consider. >> >> Pratyush reported the arm64 issue, he sent a patch to fix it with >> enabling cache for purgatory. I think the patch can fix the problem. >> Why not fix it? The fix is simple enough and it does not introduce >> complicate logic. > > This patch also is simple, and is architecture independent. I see this > feature as an improvement to kexec, not necessarily as a fix for that > problem. Disabling image verification is not an improvement, all it does is allow for a nasty form of heisenbug. Eric
