[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-devel] Xen.efi and secure boot
On 30/11/12 10:42, George Dunlap wrote: On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 10:27 AM, Jan Beulich <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx <mailto:JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>> wrote:I think this refers to the Microsoft PE (portable executable) file format - that is, the file should be like a .EXE or .DLL on windows.So I learned a little more meanwhile - it's not that trivial: I'm told the shim uses UEFI services to do the verification, and those services only handle PE images. But we obviously can't reasonably expect the Dom0 kernel to be packaged as PE image, as that would then be unusable as DomU kernel (on older hosts at least, i.e. even if we added a PE loader to libxc). Sorry for the n00b question, but what's a PE image in this context? I wish I thought I was wrong here, but I'm afraid that MS solutions are rather popular in some camps... Further searching seems to confirm that PE is indeed "standard format" for EFI. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Executable -- Mats -George _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
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