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Subject: Re: [RFC v1 05/12] firmware: add firmware signature checking support
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On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 9:57 AM, David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> wrote:
> I'm not sure how userspace actually passes the firmware blob to the kernel,
> but I do think that if you can, you should pass the signature separately to
> the blob.

Thanks yeah that is what I was hoping we'd prefer to end up doing.
Will look at your tree and see if I can base my work on that now.

 Luis