On Mi, 17.12.25 09:54, Neal Gompa ([email protected]) wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 17, 2025 at 9:44 AM Simo Sorce <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 2025-12-17 at 05:03 -0500, Neal Gompa wrote:
> > > Sure, but we explicitly *do not want* to do that. So, keeping the DTBs
> > > merged into vmlinux makes sense.
> >
> > Sorry but who is "we" ?
> >
> > Because I am pretty sure any security minded person really is for
> > moving to use just vfat for boot and not deal with developing and
> > maintaining out of tree filesystem drivers.
>
> Don't paint it with that broad of a brush. I'm certainly security
> minded and *I* don't want that.

At this point, frankly, I hear more key people from all sides arguing
*for* vfat than against. I mean, it does appear as if the only really
loud voice in all this who defends booting from complex fs all the
time is a certain Neal Gompa.

> There are trade-offs with putting
> stuff on vfat, particularly around file size, partition size,
> compatibility issues with various EFI implementations, and so on.

not sure where even to start.

Lennart

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