On Tue, Dec 20, 2022 at 04:38:37PM +0100, Dan Horák wrote: > On Tue, 20 Dec 2022 10:22:03 -0500 > Ben Cotton <bcot...@redhat.com> wrote: > > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Unified_Kernel_Support_Phase_1 > > > > This document represents a proposed Change. As part of the Changes > > process, proposals are publicly announced in order to receive > > community feedback. This proposal will only be implemented if approved > > by the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee. > > > > > > == Summary == > > Add support for unified kernels images to Fedora. > > > > == Owner == > > * Name: [[User:kraxel| Gerd Hoffmann]] > > * Email: kra...@redhat.com > > > > > > == Detailed Description == > > The goal is to move away from initrd images being generated on the > > installed machine. They are generated while building the kernel > > package instead, then shipped as part of a unified kernel image. > > > > A unified kernel image is an all-in-one efi binary containing kernel, > > initrd, cmdline and signature. The secure boot signature covers > > everything, specifically the initrd is included which is not the case > > when the initrd gets loaded as separate file from /boot. > > What platforms are going to be affected? Is it x86-64 only or does it > include aarch64 (as it's also using UEFI)? Are ppc64le and s390x out of > the current scope?
This change proposal would only be x86_64, since that's the platform where we need to solve the unsigned initrd problem with SecureBoot with EDK2/QEMU (and more generally with bare metal, but this change is limited scope to VMs to make it tractable to pre-built initrds with a fixed set of kmods). While aarch64 uses UEFI, there's no viable SecureBoot support for it in EDK2/QEMU yet. If and when that appears, then it could be extended to aarch64 at that time. There's no plans for ppc64le / s390x. NB, I'm talking from the POV of what we require to address as virtualization platform maintainers. There might be other use cases for UKIs from other teams TBD. With regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :| _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
