From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matt Fleming Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] efi: add support for seeding the RNG from a UEFI config table Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2016 12:22:43 +0100 Message-ID: <20161019112243.GD31476@codeblueprint.co.uk> References: <1475749646-10844-1-git-send-email-ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> <1475749646-10844-2-git-send-email-ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> <20161019110926.GG9616@leverpostej> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: "linux-arm-kernel" Errors-To: linux-arm-kernel-bounces+linux-arm-kernel=m.gmane.org@lists.infradead.org To: Ard Biesheuvel Cc: Mark Rutland , "linux-efi@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" List-Id: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 19 Oct, at 12:13:55PM, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > On 19 October 2016 at 12:09, Mark Rutland 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.