On Wed, 11 Jul 2012 16:38:48 -0400
Eric Christensen <eric(a)christensenplace.us> wrote:
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On 07/11/2012 04:33 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
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> On Jul 11, 2012, at 2:29 PM, John J. McDonough wrote:
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>> On Wed, 2012-07-11 at 16:15 -0400, Eric Christensen wrote:
>>> From today's Board meeting, I think it would be a good idea
>>> for someone to start working on a guide to UEFI secure boot. I
>>> don't think it would be a large document but would include:
>>>
>>> 1) What is UEFI? 2) How does Fedora implement UEFI? 3) How can
>>> you create your own UEFI keys and have your own Fedora spin
>>> work with that key. 4) ...
>>>
>>> This is a developing thought. Anyone have any ideas?
>>>
>>> -Eric
>>
>> Sounds like a really great idea. Something like that is badly
>> needed, *BUT*, is there anyone who knows the answer to those
>> questions, and if so, is there someone who can translate those
>> answers into something ordinary mortals can understand?
>
> We kinda need hardware that implements Secure Boot, and thus far
> there isn't any publicly available consumer hardware that does.
>
> As for Fedora UEFI support, this is a GRUB Legacy EFI to GRUB2 EFI
> transition phase, with the plan being GRUB2 EFI in F18, completely
> dropping GRUB Legacy. So some effort should account for the removal
> of the GRUB Legacy material from existing documentation in
> anticipation of F18.
Agreed. There is a lot of GRUB stuff out there that needs to be
removed/replaced/rewritten. Should that be set as a priority for F18
documents?
You might want to talk to Jack Reed about this.
Regards,
Petr Kovar