Re: Xen.efi and secure boot

[Mats Petersson <mats.petersson@citrix.com>]

On 30/11/12 10:42, George Dunlap wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 10:27 AM, Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com 
> <mailto:JBeulich@suse.com>> wrote:
>
>     So I learned a little more meanwhile - it's not that trivial: I'm told
>     the shim uses UEFI services to do the verification, and those
>     services only handle PE images. But we obviously can't reasonably
>     expect the Dom0 kernel to be packaged as PE image, as that
>     would then be unusable as DomU kernel (on older hosts at least,
>     i.e. even if we added a PE loader to libxc).
>
>
> Sorry for the n00b question, but what's a PE image in this context?
I think this refers to the Microsoft PE (portable executable) file 
format - that is, the file should be like a .EXE or .DLL on windows.

I wish I thought I was wrong here, but I'm afraid that MS solutions are 
rather popular in some camps...
Further searching seems to confirm that PE is indeed "standard format" 
for EFI.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Executable

--
Mats
>
>  -George
>