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Hi Perry,
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 09:29:37PM +0000, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
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> Module Name: src
> Committed By: perry
> Date: Tue Jul 15 21:29:37 UTC 2008
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> 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
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> 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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