Re: [gentoo-dev] Killing UEFI Secure Boot

[Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org>]

On 06/20/2012 05:09 PM, Greg KH wrote:
>> Technical hurdles will likely prevent this unless we an get vendors to
>> release documentation. Is there any chance you could contact people at
>> Intel requesting programming documentation on their memory controller
>> and anything else we would need to write a small OS that we could flash
>> in place of UEFI?
> 
> Again, see the response from Peter about what is needed here.  That
> "anything else" is not trivial.
> 
> But feel free to prove me wrong, I love it when that happens :)
> 
> greg k-h
> 

You must not have read this, where I said that I realized that this is
infeasible:

On 06/20/2012 04:13 PM, Richard Yao wrote:
>> Stop right there.  That's just not going to happen, sorry.  You aren't
>> going to be able to get a user to replace their BIOS, nor should you
>> ever want to.  You are not going to be able to keep up with the
>> hundreds, if not thousands, of different motherboards being introduced
>> every month, in order to just get rid of the secure boot option.
>
> OpenWRT does that with routers and Cyanogenmod does that with phones. It
> seems reason for us to offer it as an option to users. With that said,
> this probably won't happen. One of the Core Boot developers informed me
> of what is involved in setting up the address space and it is infeasible
> for us to do.

From what I can tell, the Core Boot developers could use that
documentation. You yourself said "If there's anything that anyone is
thinking I should be doing but seem not to be, please let me know.". Do
you have any intention of acting on that?