* Florian Weimer: > * Neal Gompa: > >> None of this had to be this way. It is so by our own inaction, not by >> the action of Microsoft. > > I agree. No one but Microsoft stepped up and was willing to control the > key material. > > I still wish we went the way of documenting how to disable Secure Boot > in commonly used firmware implementations. Secure Boot does not offer > any benefit to a platform designed to be as malleable as Fedora is. I > tried to start that documentation, but I got the distinct impression it > was unwanted. > > Instead run-time disabling of Secure Boot support without reboot comes > and goes, particularly in downstream kernels. Kernel modules are such > an important diagnostic tool, and not everyone plans ahead and disables > Secure Boot in case they need to load kernel modules later.
(“run-time disabling of kernel lockdown“ is more accurate—but of course if there's an off switch for this feature, lockdown isn't very effective in the first place.) >>> And for the record, my computer's UEFI firmware is so old that >>> "Secure Boot" cannot even be enabled at all, even if I wanted to. >> >> Meh. That means your computer was made before Microsoft started having >> vendors require UEFI firmware to include their keys for Windows >> certification (which was in 2006/2007). I'm surprised it still works. >> More power to you, I guess? > > Last time I checked this, the Microsoft keys required for Windows > certification were not those used to sign third-party binaries like the > Fedora shim (the “Microsoft Corporation Third Party Marketplace Root”). > You could see the difference in Hyper-V configurations, where the > default Secure Boot configuration cannot boot Fedora. > > Thanks, > Florian -- Red Hat GmbH, https://de.redhat.com/ , Registered seat: Grasbrunn, Commercial register: Amtsgericht Muenchen, HRB 153243, Managing Directors: Charles Cachera, Brian Klemm, Laurie Krebs, Michael O'Neill _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
