Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: gregkh@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] UEFI secure boot and Gentoo
Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2012 06:30:26
Message-Id: 20120616083039.431fd772@pomiocik.lan
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] UEFI secure boot and Gentoo by Greg KH
1 On Fri, 15 Jun 2012 16:56:52 -0700
2 Greg KH <gregkh@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 06:57:06AM +0200, Chí-Thanh Christopher
5 > Nguyễn wrote:
6 > > If you have influence on UEFI secure boot spec, you could suggest
7 > > that they mandate a UI which lists all boot images known to the EFI
8 > > boot manager, and the user can easily whitelist both individual
9 > > loaders and the keys used to sign them.
10 >
11 > That has already been attempted, and it failed, so it will not happen,
12 > sorry.
13
14 We can still have some hope that EU is going to bounce this for a while
15 like they did with Internet Explorer.
16
17 --
18 Best regards,
19 Michał Górny

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