'Twas brillig, and Thomas Backlund at 29/01/13 11:50 did gyre and gimble: > 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<[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. >> > > Yep, that is one of the things I'm looking at...
Cool :) >> 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... :) 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 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/
