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Linux 6.15 Plans To Drop Support For A Useless CRC-32 Checksum In The Kernel Image
Ingo Molnar began sending out the pull requests today for the upcoming Linux 6.15 merge window of code areas he oversees for the Linux kernel
Among those early pulls are of the x86/build updates, which includes removing some seemingly useless CRC-32 checksum code from the kernel. "Apart from some sanity checks on the size of setup.bin, the only remaining task carried out by the arch/x86/boot/tools/build.c build tool is generating the CRC-32 checksum of the bzImage. Michael is also the lead developer of the Phoronix Test Suite, Phoromatic, and OpenBenchmarking.org automated benchmarking software.
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