From: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>
To: Andrei Borzenkov <arvidjaar@gmail.com>
Cc: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>,
Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko <phcoder@gmail.com>,
Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>,
The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Bugs and tasks for 2.02[~rc1]
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2016 16:20:00 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160307211958.GF13163@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56DDEB3D.4010505@gmail.com>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-07 21:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-02 15:01 Bugs and tasks for 2.02[~rc1] Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2016-03-02 22:24 ` Daniel Kiper
2016-03-09 10:49 ` Daniel Kiper
[not found] ` <20160309144557.GA19753@char.us.oracle.com>
2016-03-09 14:51 ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2016-03-09 20:05 ` Daniel Kiper
2016-03-04 20:06 ` Peter Jones
2016-03-05 8:38 ` Andrei Borzenkov
2016-03-07 19:00 ` Peter Jones
2016-03-07 19:57 ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2016-03-07 20:33 ` Andrei Borzenkov
2016-03-07 20:40 ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2016-03-07 20:57 ` Andrei Borzenkov
2016-03-07 21:03 ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2016-03-07 21:20 ` Peter Jones [this message]
2016-03-07 21:29 ` Andrei Borzenkov
2016-03-07 22:01 ` Peter Jones
2016-03-07 22:07 ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2016-03-08 4:16 ` Michael Chang
2016-03-08 3:40 ` Michael Chang
2016-03-08 4:57 ` Andrei Borzenkov
2016-03-09 15:18 ` Matt Fleming
2016-03-09 20:15 ` Linux loader EFI handover (was: Bugs and tasks for 2.02[~rc1]) Andrei Borzenkov
2016-03-10 14:21 ` Matt Fleming
2016-03-11 17:46 ` Linux loader EFI handover Andrei Borzenkov
2016-03-07 21:42 ` Bugs and tasks for 2.02[~rc1] Matt Fleming
2016-03-11 15:51 ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2016-03-14 15:17 ` Matt Fleming
2016-03-15 17:38 ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2016-03-22 17:54 ` Peter Jones
2016-03-07 21:14 ` Peter Jones
2016-03-07 21:50 ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2016-03-07 21:10 ` Peter Jones
2016-03-11 18:01 ` Andrei Borzenkov
2016-03-07 21:03 ` Peter Jones
2016-03-07 21:08 ` Andrei Borzenkov
2016-03-07 21:26 ` Peter Jones
2016-03-07 21:08 ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2016-03-08 17:57 ` Andrei Borzenkov
2016-03-08 21:47 ` Peter Jones
2016-03-11 18:38 ` Andrei Borzenkov
2016-03-09 6:38 ` Olaf Hering
2016-03-09 7:54 ` Michael Chang
2016-03-09 8:13 ` Andrei Borzenkov
2016-03-11 16:04 ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2016-04-13 8:49 ` Olaf Hering
2016-03-13 6:30 ` Andrei Borzenkov
2016-03-22 18:48 ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2016-03-22 19:51 ` Andrei Borzenkov
2016-04-18 4:18 ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
[not found] ` <20160328145903.GF17944@char.us.oracle.com>
2016-04-12 16:44 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-04-18 4:20 ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2016-04-12 17:53 ` Bruce Dubbs
2016-04-18 4:20 ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2016-03-03 14:47 Juergen Gross
2016-03-09 10:52 ` Daniel Kiper
2016-03-11 15:47 ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2016-03-11 15:57 ` Juergen Gross
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