From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Garrett Subject: Re: Revisiting EFI boot stub config file support Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2013 17:54:23 +0000 Message-ID: <20130102175423.GA2881@srcf.ucam.org> References: <50E306FB.6080607@shealevy.com> <50E31BB4.7040702@zytor.com> <710F73BE-9F65-48C9-8739-BFCF097F4B07@shealevy.com> <20130102174319.GA2590@srcf.ucam.org> <4DA0AD0B-49D1-4938-B38D-A15C378167B0@shealevy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4DA0AD0B-49D1-4938-B38D-A15C378167B0-yfkUTty7RcRWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-efi-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Shea Levy Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , "linux-efi-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" , Linux Kernel Mailing List List-Id: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jan 02, 2013 at 12:52:21PM -0500, Shea Levy wrote: > But you can't set args when booting from external media (using e.g. > \boot\efi\bootx64.efi), at least not on any system I've seen. And even > if you could, that'd over complicate the install process for new > users. So have an initial wrapper that launches the kernel and passes an argument. You're going to need something equivalent if you want to support Secure Boot. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59-1xO5oi07KQx4cg9Nei1l7Q@public.gmane.org