'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<[email protected]> >> [..] >>>> 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/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited http://www.tribalogic.net/ Open Source: Mageia Contributor http://www.mageia.org/ PulseAudio Hacker http://www.pulseaudio.org/ Trac Hacker http://trac.edgewall.org/
