Re: Suggestion: Use a unified kernel image by default in the future.

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  Hi,

> We have been working on building tools and filling gaps to make that
> workable reasonably in systemd upstream, and with a focus on
> Fedora. The difficulty is in both being able to prebuild everything
> but also keeping things somewhat modular and parameterizable. Because
> right now those are the primary reasons initrds are built on the
> installed host instead of Fedora: they contain local configuration and
> drivers. If we prebuild everything we must have model to
> replace these parts, without compromising security, and that's not
> rivial.

Is all this this discussed somewhere in public?
systemd-devel list maybe?

For virtual machines we need some way to make sure they actually run
the software we want them run, and it seems the options we have are:

  (1) finally plug that initrd hole, or
  (2) use encrypted /boot

... where (2) feels more like a workaround for the unsigned initrd
problem and it also opens another can of worms like requiring luks
support in the boot loader.

I guess you already have a list of the "local configuration" bits
which must be tackled?  Obvious #1 is finding the root filesystem.
Should be solvable with discoverable partitions.  A few days back
I've found a 7 (!) year old bug[1] of yours truly asking to support
that in anaconda, still in NEW state :(

take care,
  Gerd

[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1075288
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