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Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 15:08:54 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org> To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com> Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>, Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>, Eric Northup <digitaleric@...gle.com>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, "kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com" <kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>, Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@...el.com>, Matthew Garrett <mjg@...hat.com>, Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@...el.com>, Dan Rosenberg <drosenberg@...curity.com>, Julien Tinnes <jln@...gle.com>, Will Drewry <wad@...omium.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] x86: kaslr: relocate base offset at boot * H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com> wrote: > No. Fixing one bootloader is almost impossible. Fixing them all is a > Sisiphyean task. It's a self inflicted wound really: if only we had a reference bootloader in the kernel tree, which we could fix. The effort that went into fixing various bootloader interactions would have been enough to write two new bootloaders from scratch. Thanks, Ingo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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