[Bug 755093] Review Request: mactel-boot - boot tools for Intel Apple hardware

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--- Comment #6 from Mads Kiilerich <mads@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 2011-11-20 15:17:38 EST ---
(Discussion of the new grub2-efi model might be a bit off topic here, but a
review of the correctness of the packaging of this special package do in my
opinion depend a lot on it.)

In my opinion the "interface" of system-logos is to provide whatever logos is
needed for various purposes in the distribution. Packages can always drop in a
picture of their favourite junk food if they can't come up with something
better.

I see - HFS blessing works just like a grub2 blocklist? That bless has to be
rerun when grub.efi is changed only makes it more clear that bless shouldn't be
run in %post of this package. A trigger on grub2-efi would perhaps work in most
cases.

(But if bless has to be run every time grub.efi changes, then there is no real
benefit from the symlink, and we could just as well also copy grub.efi to the
HFS partition before blessing. There is thus no need for mounting the Fedora
bootstrap HFS partition as a fake EFI system partition on /boot/efi. Mounting
it somewhere else would in my opinion be more transparent and less surprising.)

I don't know how you plan to implement "secure" boot, but I assume it is
incompatible with the idea of having a simple editable boot loader
configuration file. Most users will prefer that the EFI firmware starts a
grub.efi that trusts "everything" and doesn't extend the verification/chain of
trust. It seems to me like "secure" boot will have to be a special cumbersome
mode anyway.

Should fonts and background images and i18n and grubenv also move from
/boot/grub2-efi to the EFI system partition - and how?

It _is_ possible to include a "ram disk" with everything in grub.efi, but that
would either require a grub2-efi-install-ish step "on demand", or that the
grub2-efi rpm includes a pre-built inflexible "ram disk". Do you want to do
something like that?

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