Hi, after some initial reading, thinking and experiments regarding UEFI support in Tails, I've come up with a first set of goals and non-goals I believe to be reasonable to start with.
Quoting https://tails.boum.org/blueprint/UEFI/: Goals ----- * devices produced by Tails Installer should boot on most UEFI-only hardware (e.g. some relevant set of Macs) * devices produced by Tails Installer should boot on most hardware that only supports UEFI boot for GPT devices (e.g. ThinkPad X220) Non-goals --------- * UEFI DVD boot: BIOS boot from DVD works fine on most hardware, including Macs; adding the files needed to have UEFI DVD boot work on some systems will break what currently works for others. * UEFI boot from hybrid ISO cat'd on a USB device: given BIOS DVD boot works generally fine, it's OK to require users to go this way and install their UEFI-capable Tails USB stick from DVD. * Secure Boot support is not part of this plan. Picking technical solutions that leave room for Secure Boot would be a great bonus, though. Does this make sense to you? Anything you'd like to see changed? Cheers, -- intrigeri | GnuPG key @ https://gaffer.ptitcanardnoir.org/intrigeri/intrigeri.asc | OTR fingerprint @ https://gaffer.ptitcanardnoir.org/intrigeri/otr.asc _______________________________________________ tails-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.boum.org/listinfo/tails-dev
