Re: Bugs and tasks for 2.02[~rc1]

[Andrei Borzenkov]

08.03.2016 00:20, Peter Jones пишет:
> On Mon, Mar 07, 2016 at 11:57:33PM +0300, Andrei Borzenkov wrote:
>>
>>> How big part of it is related to secure boot? Just
>>> changing Linux boot protocol doesn't need FSF involvement. Accepting secure
>>
>> Patches currently use EFI stub to launch kernel but I think this is done
>> simply to make code easier. We can continue to use the same load
>> protocol as before, just add image verification.
> 
> No, they're doing it because that is the supported entry point for EFI
> in Linux.  We do not want EFI machines using other entry points.  It
> worked out terribly when we used to do this, and we don't want to start
> again.  I've Cc'd Matt Fleming, the upstream kernel EFI maintainer,
> because I'm sure he's going to agree with me.
> 

So you mean that linux loader is currently broken on EFI?