On Sun, Dec 09, 2012 at 07:52:16PM -0500, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 7:24 PM, Diego Elio Pettenò > <flamee...@flameeyes.eu> wrote: > > On 09/12/2012 19:59, Greg KH wrote: > >> The UEFI spec does not allow that mode of operation in secure boot mode, > >> sorry. You will have to disable it in order to boot a Gentoo image, > >> which is fine, but there's no reason why Gentoo can't use the MS-signed > >> shim bootloader like all other distros are using, right? > > I thought I had read something in Google+ posted by somebody who > mentioned that their firmware was doing exactly that. It may very > well be prohibited by the spec though, in which case we shouldn't > count on it.
I have not seen that at all, any pointers? Based on my interactions with the UEFI group, and Microsoft, that's either a bug that will be fixed up, or some misinformation. thanks, greg k-h
