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Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2012 18:35:17 -0800
From: Greg KH <gregkh@gentoo.org>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] borked release media
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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
> <flameeyes@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