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Re: Bugs and tasks for 2.02[~rc1]
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Peter Jones |
Subject: |
Re: Bugs and tasks for 2.02[~rc1] |
Date: |
Mon, 7 Mar 2016 16:20:00 -0500 |
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Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) |
On Mon, Mar 07, 2016 at 11:57:33PM +0300, Andrei Borzenkov wrote:
>
> > How big part of it is related to secure boot? Just
> > changing Linux boot protocol doesn't need FSF involvement. Accepting secure
>
> Patches currently use EFI stub to launch kernel but I think this is done
> simply to make code easier. We can continue to use the same load
> protocol as before, just add image verification.
No, they're doing it because that is the supported entry point for EFI
in Linux. We do not want EFI machines using other entry points. It
worked out terribly when we used to do this, and we don't want to start
again. I've Cc'd Matt Fleming, the upstream kernel EFI maintainer,
because I'm sure he's going to agree with me.
--
Peter
- Re: Bugs and tasks for 2.02[~rc1], (continued)
Re: Bugs and tasks for 2.02[~rc1], Peter Jones, 2016/03/04
- Re: Bugs and tasks for 2.02[~rc1], Andrei Borzenkov, 2016/03/05
- Re: Bugs and tasks for 2.02[~rc1], Peter Jones, 2016/03/07
- Re: Bugs and tasks for 2.02[~rc1], Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko, 2016/03/07
- Re: Bugs and tasks for 2.02[~rc1], Andrei Borzenkov, 2016/03/07
- Re: Bugs and tasks for 2.02[~rc1], Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko, 2016/03/07
- Re: Bugs and tasks for 2.02[~rc1], Andrei Borzenkov, 2016/03/07
- Re: Bugs and tasks for 2.02[~rc1], Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko, 2016/03/07
- Re: Bugs and tasks for 2.02[~rc1],
Peter Jones <=
- Re: Bugs and tasks for 2.02[~rc1], Andrei Borzenkov, 2016/03/07
- Re: Bugs and tasks for 2.02[~rc1], Peter Jones, 2016/03/07
- Re: Bugs and tasks for 2.02[~rc1], Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko, 2016/03/07
- Re: Bugs and tasks for 2.02[~rc1], Michael Chang, 2016/03/07
- Re: Bugs and tasks for 2.02[~rc1], Michael Chang, 2016/03/07
- Re: Bugs and tasks for 2.02[~rc1], Andrei Borzenkov, 2016/03/07
- Re: Bugs and tasks for 2.02[~rc1], Matt Fleming, 2016/03/09
- Linux loader EFI handover (was: Bugs and tasks for 2.02[~rc1]), Andrei Borzenkov, 2016/03/09
- Re: Linux loader EFI handover (was: Bugs and tasks for 2.02[~rc1]), Matt Fleming, 2016/03/10
- Re: Linux loader EFI handover, Andrei Borzenkov, 2016/03/11