On 5/15/23 21:43, Matthew Garrett wrote:
On Mon, May 15, 2023 at 08:41:00PM -0400, Daniel P. Smith wrote:
On 5/15/23 17:22, Matthew Garrett wrote:
What if I don't use grub, but use something that behaves equivalently?
Which value should be used here?
Generally we would request that the bootloader submit a request to register
for a value to be reserved in the spec. That aside, the intent here is to
allow for the possibility for the DLE handler to be independent from the
bootloader, but this does not have to be this way. If a non-open entity
decides to produce their own implementation, they can freely use a
unallocated value at their own risk that it could be allocated to another
bootloader in the future. Though in this scenario it likely would not matter
as the non-open DLE handler would only be present when the non-open
bootloader was present.
Is the expectation that the DLE will always be shipped with the
bootloader? I think I'm not entirely clear on what's consuming this and
why.
No, in fact, an early idea proposed by a pair of us in the TrenchBoot
community was to have it live either as a Runtime Service that was
loaded by a UEFI app or in the coreboot UEFI payload.
