-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 07/11/2012 04:33 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > > On Jul 11, 2012, at 2:29 PM, John J. McDonough wrote: > >> 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? - -Eric -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJP/eRYAAoJEIB2q94CS7PR6eUP/iZW4wd0Byyka0+7jqD52fQd laHFIy9bY9W28GcpG44M2NMYaePqYCalxO5EEwKO1X/5ZWahSrknlGbDRRwsM8fY kiSxG6WrK9in4Bmee3g5n80VimjPMZLrlwIzMHUV/hTV/GhkI1Qlgrar4xHKlBHG 6yCMVslu9C0kdJqGc0ALKqXHk1EE8I3dUJMwA6Fhr4kVcTGiHfO7gH7FIYt5I05h Xh1zOrP/0eWZ2hjxM5dtpH+q+DtPjDobyseD3RnNGEvefboH+bloSBdWneVQ53EW EwGLVhgWXDVNaL7pd0gAT5iw2lOJ/0lE8OKgU4j0WXln5zIg26PO5aK6gSvkjo1S z3w1dhjaXyvOiqueB92soEDhXfqxnXw/Vs4HjrdtqMX0GmuuEn9lQNSy9F8Od3+5 WG+cLL0h4HT55MdDpyxqOKRRlIzuEWDgNVdhDSh0fvt0sX0XqBeUpNgQErVHmhmz yURrwicWu3R+KQlRycmc6Wnzx+ZXcRmaXrpKgGTKzp6Bxd3/4mPYt6X79L2dq6Sw vWpVd9dkLrm+DB1+RmHN5J49yEB/ptxohX5JsHlu6mVCott1Y2C6Tc5nFPWN4YW+ d8ycCOAbV5rVBVOb3m3UeIuuNVS5lYFyQ5RLrnB8zNRYQptTaXPdbg0h4VDVr38e utn9yv/LCTnEeYcAUSCt =YLcL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- docs mailing list docs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/docs
