From: matt@codeblueprint.co.uk (Matt Fleming)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] efi: add support for seeding the RNG from a UEFI config table
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2016 12:22:43 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161019112243.GD31476@codeblueprint.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKv+Gu9g1W8EfnJN2Y_Xgo=QKC1gHa95rjO32Dqt4uT+amzhnQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, 19 Oct, at 12:13:55PM, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> On 19 October 2016 at 12:09, Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> wrote:
>
> > I think to some extent this mush be treated as an ABI, given cases like
> > kexec.
> >
>
> Perhaps, yes. That would also allow GRUB or other EFI aware
> bootloaders to generate the seed.
If we're going to go down this route, we should try and get the GUID
into the UEFI spec.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-10-19 11:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-10-06 10:27 [PATCH 0/2] efi: add support for seeding the kernel RNG from UEFI Ard Biesheuvel
2016-10-06 10:27 ` [PATCH 1/2] efi: add support for seeding the RNG from a UEFI config table Ard Biesheuvel
2016-10-19 11:02 ` Matt Fleming
2016-10-19 11:09 ` Mark Rutland
2016-10-19 11:13 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2016-10-19 11:22 ` Matt Fleming [this message]
2016-10-19 20:14 ` Kees Cook
2016-10-19 20:18 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2016-10-19 20:20 ` Kees Cook
2016-10-19 20:35 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2016-10-06 10:27 ` [PATCH 2/2] efi/arm*: libstub: invoke EFI_RNG_PROTOCOL to seed the UEFI RNG table Ard Biesheuvel
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