Re: [LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] pci_rom.c checksum extension rom

[Alex Beregszaszi]

Hi,

On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 04:29 +0200, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
> Alex Beregszaszi  [070904 13:17]:
> > Hi,
> >
> > the attached patch adds code to checksum the pci extension rom and stop
> > if the stored and calculated checksum differ.
>
> Is this checksum reliably correct? I am hesitating to add new
> restrictions that might break otherwise working cards.

This algorithm is used in vgabios to set the checksum, and bochsbios to
check the option roms. If you think this makes too much restrictions,
you might make this only a warning and not a fail condition. Or defined
under a PARANOID_SECURITY option :)