On Tue, 2015-07-28 at 11:36 -0700, josh@joshtriplett.org wrote:
> 
> The main advantage of signatures would be the ability to update the
> firmware *without* updating the driver.  Is that a feature?

Yes, absolutely. We do want to be able to update firmware *without*
updating the driver. They are separate entities.

That said, some drivers whose firmware is *actually* never updated and
is only separate for licensing and unswappable-kernel-data-size reasons
*could* perhaps just use a hash.

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David Woodhouse                            Open Source Technology Centre
David.Woodhouse@intel.com                              Intel Corporation