Re: CVS commit: src/sys/arch/i386/stand

[Bernd Ernesti <veego%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

Hi Perry,

On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 09:29:37PM +0000, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> 
> Module Name:  src
> Committed By: perry
> Date:         Tue Jul 15 21:29:37 UTC 2008
> 
> Modified Files:
>       src/sys/arch/i386/stand/boot: boot2.c
>       src/sys/arch/i386/stand/dosboot: main.c
>       src/sys/arch/i386/stand/netboot: main.c
>       src/sys/arch/i386/stand/pxeboot: main.c
> 
> Log Message:
> Change the x86 boot blocks so they don't include builder login and date.
> 
> For now, we include kernel revision as a way of allowing users to
> notice that boot blocks have gotten very old, so the first line of the
> printout looks like this (depending on the particular block):
> 
>   >> NetBSD/x86 BIOS Boot, Revision 3.4 (from NetBSD 5.0)
> 
> This may be changed a bit pending feedback. (Some people think that
> the kernel revision shouldn't be there at all, for example.)
> 
> Part of the project to assure that bit-identical sources produce
> bit-identical release binaries.

I asked you before to bring this topic up on tech-kern, where you would
get rational why this should not be done.

David Laight and Simon Burge allready brought up there reason for why
this won't work and I have the same concerns.

Such things should have been discussed on a PUBLIC mailing before changing it.

Regards
Bernd

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