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Re: [Xen-devel] Xen 4.5 development update (July update)



>>> On 15.08.14 at 21:46, <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 08:40:35PM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> >>> On 15.08.14 at 19:23, <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > *  Xen multiboot2-EFI support (fair)
>> >    Needed for SecureBoot
>> >    Depends on Xen Boot info (rework multiboot and other structs)
>> >    See http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2013-05/msg02281.html 
>> >    RFC posted
>> >   -  Daniel Kiper
>> 
>> I think the qualification above should be changed from "Needed for
>> SecureBoot" to "Needed to work with GrUB2" - after all, secure
>> booting works quite fine without that code in place.
> 
> <nods> Is there an document describing how to do that?

I don't know of one, but that doesn't mean much. Iirc this
involves a small custom patch to the boot loader unless you'd
set things up so the shim would load xen.efi directly (not
sure whether that actually works).

> (I presume you need to build xen.efi with a signature?)

Yes.

Jan


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