svn commit: r239569 - head/etc/rc.d

[Ian Lepore]

On Tue, 2012-09-11 at 17:07 -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 04:22:24PM -0700, Xin Li wrote:
> > Please consider using sha512...
> 
> What is the performance (boot time) impact on low-end MIPS and ARM
> systems?
> 
> I'm all for sha512, but don't want to be shot with a machine gun (vs.
> simple pistol).
> 

For the embedded systems I take care of, the performance problem on
low-end systems is likely to be solved by ignoring all of this angels
dancing on a pin stuff and supplying an alternate kickstart mechanism
appropriate to the way the system is used (which almost surely won't be
in any national security datacenter).

I can assure you that neither shaXXX nor gzip nor anything else that
eats that many cycles will be involved. :)

I just hope one of things coming out of all this is a reasonable
mechanism for supplying alternate kickstart data.

-- Ian