> On Wed, May 10, 2023 at 5:34 PM Chris Murphy <lists(a)colorremedies.com&gt;
> wrote:
> 
> 
> In this idea, the dm-verity parition/file would only be accessed from the
> initrd, once we have enough kernel to ability to interact with physical
> storage, understand partitions, initialize dm-verity, and read *a*
> partition, but potentially not enough to read from a bluetooth keyboard,
> show a graphical prompt, mount / from the network, etc.
> 
> What dm-verity provides here is a way to trust content without requiring it
> to be read ahead of time, checksumed, signature checked and put into ram.

We already support dm-verity for the rootfs, in both dracut and mkosi-initrd, 
not sure what's the issue here?

> The elephant in the room is whether the "desktops in the default
> installation" UKI requires piles of graphics firmware. It might not be at
> all small in that case.

We support optional extensions with UKIs exactly for this reason.
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