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I've been thinking to upgrade my system +</I>>>>><i> somewhere +</I>>>>><i> this year. This means secure boot, UEFI, etc. It would be nice if +</I>>>>><i> Mageia +</I>>>>><i> supports that nicely. +</I>>>>><i> +</I>>>><i> +</I>>>><i> Supporting (U)EFI does not require SecureBoot support... +</I>>>><i> +</I>>>><i> we wont support SecureBoot for Mga3, and there is no rush considering +</I>>>><i> a lot of changes is still happening on several fronts... +</I>>>><i> +</I>>>><i> I will try to see if I can fix the UEFI part for ~beta3, but no promises +</I>>>><i> yet.... +</I>>>><i> +</I>>>><i> And for people thinking of Windows 8 dual boot... Win8 does not +</I>>>><i> _require_ SecureBoot either... (only the overprized RT does) +</I>>>><i> +</I>>>><i> +</I>>>><i> And personally, I dont think we should ever bother with the SecureBoot +</I>>>><i> crap as its flawed in so many ways... +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> On a semi-related note, it would be nice to package gummiboot although I +</I>>><i> have no h/w to test it on. +</I>>><i> +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Yep, that is one of the things I'm looking at... +</I> +Cool :) + +>><i> For mga4 it might make sense to integrate it (assuming it's still a good +</I>>><i> solution) properly into our tools. +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> Personally, I'm going to avoid grub2. It seems insane to me to implement +</I>>><i> all kinds of exotic filesystem supoort and even md stuff in a +</I>>><i> bootloader... +</I>><i> +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Well, I think for next 3.8 kernel build I think I will make ahci, ext4 +</I>><i> and btrfs builtin so you can boot without initrd on new hw, and if you +</I>><i> install the kernel in correct place on the "efi" partition, you can +</I>><i> boot the kernel directly without bootloader... :) +</I> +Yup, with newer systemds (not yet in mga - think it's probably best to +wait for mga4, but I could backport those bits if there is sufficient +interest), if you have an EFI partition and you have an empty /boot +folder with no other /boot mounts defined, it'll automatically mount the +efi partition there. + +This is where I think our tools would need updating to realise this was +the case and use the correct vendor subdir for kernel (and optional +initrd) installation. Will likely take a bit of fiddling to get right, +hence why I think this is really an mga4 thing for the most part. + +Col + +-- + +Colin Guthrie +colin(at)mageia.org +<A HREF="http://colin.guthr.ie/">http://colin.guthr.ie/</A> + +Day Job: + Tribalogic Limited <A HREF="http://www.tribalogic.net/">http://www.tribalogic.net/</A> +Open Source: + Mageia Contributor <A HREF="http://www.mageia.org/">http://www.mageia.org/</A> + PulseAudio Hacker <A HREF="http://www.pulseaudio.org/">http://www.pulseaudio.org/</A> + Trac Hacker <A HREF="http://trac.edgewall.org/">http://trac.edgewall.org/</A> +</PRE> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="022203.html">[Mageia-dev] [council] *ping* Media query: secure boot support +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="022195.html">[Mageia-dev] [council] *ping* Media query: secure boot support +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#22206">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#22206">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#22206">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#22206">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">More information about the Mageia-dev +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |