From 6fb9ffefdd9cc64c08cf7627efd8a87a894b0419 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Francis Rowe <info@gluglug.org.uk>
Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2015 16:02:39 +0100
Subject: download/grub: verify checksums of downloaded files

---
 docs/maintain/index.html | 8 ++++++++
 docs/tasks.html          | 3 ++-
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'docs')

diff --git a/docs/maintain/index.html b/docs/maintain/index.html
index feff7b3f..add2ee9a 100644
--- a/docs/maintain/index.html
+++ b/docs/maintain/index.html
@@ -436,6 +436,14 @@
 				build the ROM images and test them, with this different
 				GRUB version that you have prepared.
 			</p>
+			<p>
+				Note: you will also need to replace the sha512 sums in
+				<i>resources/scripts/helpers/sha512sums/grub</i>. Do this with
+				an <i>unmodified</i> version of GRUB, from the commit that you are using,
+				and make sure that the files/directories beginning with <i>.git</i> do not
+				appear in the list of sha512 checksums. You can generate the list like so:<br/>
+				$ <b>for i in $(find -type f); do sha512sum &quot;${i}&quot; >> ../resources/scripts/helpers/sha512sums/grub; done</b>
+			</p>
 
 			<p>
 				<a href="#pagetop">Back to top of page</a>.
diff --git a/docs/tasks.html b/docs/tasks.html
index fab0a279..9124257b 100644
--- a/docs/tasks.html
+++ b/docs/tasks.html
@@ -105,7 +105,8 @@
 							<ul>
 								<li>Look into the <i>rockchip</i> (rk3288. note: mali gpu. one or two blobs might need replacing.
 								see <a href="http://blogs.coreboot.org/blog/2015/05/26/report-on-chrome-os-upstreaming/">this page</a>
-								for example) and <i>IBM 'POWER8' platforms</i></li>
+								for example) and <i>IBM 'POWER8' platforms</i> - NOTE: ARM systems use the <i>depthcharge</i> payload
+								which afaik is free-sw. For GRUB, see <a href="https://wiki.linaro.org/LEG/Engineering/Grub2">https://wiki.linaro.org/LEG/Engineering/Grub2</a></li>
 							</ul>
 						</li>
 						<li>
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