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

Tue Jan 29 10:30:58 CET 2013

'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.
+
+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...
+
+Col
+
+
+
+-- 
+
+Colin Guthrie
+colin(at)mageia.org
+http://colin.guthr.ie/
+
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[Mageia-dev] [council] *ping* Media query: secure boot support

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