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On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 09:49:01AM +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: |
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> Am 15.06.2012 09:26, schrieb Michał Górny: |
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> > On Thu, 14 Jun 2012 21:56:04 -0700 Greg KH <gregkh@g.o> wrote: |
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> >> On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 10:15:28AM +0530, Arun Raghavan wrote: |
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> >>> On 15 June 2012 09:58, Greg KH <gregkh@g.o> wrote: |
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> >>>> So, anyone been thinking about this? I have, and it's not pretty. |
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> >>>> |
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> >>>> Should I worry about this and how it affects Gentoo, or not worry |
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> >>>> about Gentoo right now and just focus on the other issues? |
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> >>> |
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> >>> I think it at least makes sense to talk about it, and work out what |
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> >>> we can and cannot do. |
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> >>> |
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> >>> I guess we're in an especially bad position since everybody builds |
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> >>> their own bootloader. Is there /any/ viable solution that allows |
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> >>> people to continue doing this short of distributing a first-stage |
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> >>> bootloader blob? |
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> >> |
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> >> Distributing a first-stage bootloader blob, that is signed by |
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> >> Microsoft, or someone, seems to be the only way to easily handle this. |
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> > |
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> > Maybe we could get one such a blob for all distros/systems? |
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> > |
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> I guess nothing prevents you from re-distributing Fedora's blob. |
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Fedora's blob will not boot your unsigned-with-fedoras-key kernel, so |
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redistributing it will not help anyone :( |
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greg k-h |
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