Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 6 May 2020 15:33:06 +0200 | From | Daniel Kiper <> | Subject | Re: [GRUB PATCH RFC 12/18] i386/efi: Report UEFI Secure Boot status to the Linux kernel |
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On Tue, May 05, 2020 at 10:29:05AM -0700, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Mon, May 4, 2020 at 4:25 PM Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com> wrote: > > > > Otherwise the kernel does not know its state and cannot enable various > > security features depending on UEFI Secure Boot. > > I think this needs more context. If the kernel is loaded via the EFI > boot stub, the kernel is aware of the UEFI secure boot state. Why > duplicate this functionality in order to avoid the EFI stub?
It seems to me that this issue was discussed here [1] and here [2]. So, if you want me to improve the commit message I am OK with that.
Additionally, FYI I am not happy with that patch too. So, if somebody has better idea how to do that then I am happy to discuss it here.
Daniel
[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/3/25/982 [2] https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/3/26/985
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