linux-kernel - Re: Build Linux kernel to have comparable zImages

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Date:   Thu, 9 Feb 2017 09:46:13 +0100
From:   Lukasz Majewski <lukma@...x.de>
To:     Andrew Donnellan <andrew.donnellan@....ibm.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Build Linux kernel to have comparable zImages

On Thu, 9 Feb 2017 11:25:15 +1100
Andrew Donnellan <andrew.donnellan@....ibm.com> wrote:

> On 08/02/17 20:20, Lukasz Majewski wrote:
> > Dear All,
> >
> > Maybe somebody can point me to solution to the following problem:
> >
> > Problem:
> >
> > I do want to be able to compare (with e.g. md5sum, sha1) two linux
> > zImages. The problem is that Linux compiles in current build time
> > into the binary. Hence, even two identical builds will have
> > different hash.
> >
> > Why:
> >
> > I do want to do some considerable Kconfig rework and avoid situation
> > where some option would be left not enabled.
> 
> You might want to look at 
> https://github.com/hardenedlinux/grsecurity-reproducible-build, I'm
> not familiar with it at all but it seems to be somewhat in the
> direction you're after.

Thanks for pointing this out :-).

> 


Best regards,

Lukasz Majewski

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