On Wed, Jul 27, 2022, at 4:27 PM, Vitaly Zaitsev via devel wrote:
> On 27/07/2022 22:19, Chris Murphy wrote:
>> * $BOOT is supposed to be readable by all distros that share $BOOT
>
> It will. efifs will be installed to ESP partition.
>
>> * efifs drivers must be signed in order to be loaded on UEFI Secure Boot 
>> enabled systems
>
> True. But I think Fedora can sign drivers from the efifs package with 
> own keys.
>
>> * shim is distro specific, and is what provides the key for efifs as well as 
>> the 2nd stage bootloader
>
> I prefer no shim in my computers. I'm using systemd-boot signed by my 
> own CA.

That is not a generic solution we can ship in Fedora. Since each distro ships 
their own shim, they'd each have to ship their own signed fsfs in order to read 
the shared a non-FAT $BOOT. It's too high a barrier to adoption.



-- 
Chris Murphy
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