[Mageia-dev] [council] *ping* Media query: secure boot support

[Thomas Backlund]

Colin Guthrie skrev 29.1.2013 11:30:
> 'Twas brillig, and Thomas Backlund at 29/01/13 09:11 did gyre and gimble:
>> Olav Vitters skrev 29.1.2013 10:43:
>>> On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 01:43:25PM +0100, Marja van Waes wrote:
>>>>> From: Sam Varghese<sam at gnubies.com>
>>> [..]
>>>>> I would like to know what Mageia plans to do about secure boot - when
>>>>> you will have a release that supports booting on hardware on which this
>>>>> feature is enabled.
>>>
>>> I'm wondering as well. I've been thinking to upgrade my system somewhere
>>> this year. This means secure boot, UEFI, etc. It would be nice if Mageia
>>> supports that nicely.
>>>
>>
>> Supporting (U)EFI does not require SecureBoot support...
>>
>> we wont support SecureBoot for Mga3, and there is no rush considering
>> a lot of changes is still happening on several fronts...
>>
>> I will try to see if I can fix the UEFI part for ~beta3, but no promises
>> yet....
>>
>> And for people thinking of Windows 8 dual boot... Win8 does not
>> _require_ SecureBoot either... (only the overprized RT does)
>>
>>
>> And personally, I dont think we should ever bother with the SecureBoot
>> crap as its flawed in so many ways...
>
> On a semi-related note, it would be nice to package gummiboot although I
> have no h/w to test it on.
>

Yep, that is one of the things I'm looking at...

> For mga4 it might make sense to integrate it (assuming it's still a good
> solution) properly into our tools.
>
> Personally, I'm going to avoid grub2. It seems insane to me to implement
> all kinds of exotic filesystem supoort and even md stuff in a bootloader...


Well, I think for next 3.8 kernel build I think I will make ahci, ext4 
and btrfs builtin so you can boot without initrd on new hw, and if you
install the kernel in correct place on the "efi" partition, you can
boot the kernel directly without bootloader... :)

--
Thomas