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

+ Thomas Backlund + tmb at mageia.org +
+ Tue Jan 29 12:50:07 CET 2013 +

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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... :)
+
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+Thomas
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