Shim and secure boot status, leading up to bookworm

2023-01-25 Thread Steve McIntyre
Hey all! Here's a status update and plans for SB and shim. If any of this is unclear or you have doubts, please say! We currently have *signed* shim *15.4* packages in the archive, for all of buster, bullseye, bookworm and sid. That works OK at the moment, but is getting old (July 2021) and needs

Re: Shim and secure boot status, leading up to bookworm

2023-01-25 Thread Antonio Terceiro
On Wed, Jan 25, 2023 at 06:11:45PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: > Hey all! > > Here's a status update and plans for SB and shim. If any of this is > unclear or you have doubts, please say! > > We currently have *signed* shim *15.4* packages in the archive, for > all of buster, bullseye, bookworm

Bug#1029543: hw-detect: clarify use cases about searching for firmware packages on external media

2023-01-25 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, Cyril Brulebois (2023-01-24): > I'm also not sure what our plan for e.g. ARM images (concatenateable > images) would be; I don't think we'll pull any firmware packages during a > d-i build, so they wouldn't end up under [2], but maybe it'd be feasible > to just concatenate some file/image con

Re: Shim and secure boot status, leading up to bookworm

2023-01-25 Thread Jeremy Hall
Hi, When things get built, will there be a path forward for people who might need grub modules like serial console for accessibility reasons? Thanks _J On 1/25/23, Antonio Terceiro wrote: > On Wed, Jan 25, 2023 at 06:11:45PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> Hey all! >> >> Here's a status update

Re: Shim and secure boot status, leading up to bookworm

2023-01-25 Thread Steve McIntyre
Hey Antonio, On Wed, Jan 25, 2023 at 04:17:50PM -0300, Antonio Terceiro wrote: >On Wed, Jan 25, 2023 at 06:11:45PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> >> The MS and cert issues are now both resolved, and I'm now working on a >> shim *15.7* upload. There's a little more work and testing to do, but >>

Re: Shim and secure boot status, leading up to bookworm

2023-01-25 Thread Steve McIntyre
Hi Jeremy, On Wed, Jan 25, 2023 at 12:40:07PM -0700, Jeremy Hall wrote: > >When things get built, will there be a path forward for people who >might need grub modules like serial console for accessibility reasons? The serial module has already been added to the signed grub binary a while back (2.

Re: Bug#1029543: hw-detect: clarify use cases about searching for firmware packages on external media

2023-01-25 Thread Diederik de Haas
On Wednesday, 25 January 2023 20:22:33 CET Cyril Brulebois wrote: > # SD card images (might also be applicable to the upcoming ChromeOS images) > ... > All of this assuming that the end results can be appended as the third > part of the + + combination! This sounds like a nice solution for the

Re: Bug#1029543: hw-detect: clarify use cases about searching for firmware packages on external media

2023-01-25 Thread Diederik de Haas
On Wednesday, 25 January 2023 23:01:01 CET Diederik de Haas wrote: > This sounds like a nice solution for the SD card images. > I myself always use a wired connection, but I saw yesterday that someone > tried to use d-i for RockPro64 but didn't get any output on screen and then > tried again using

Bug#1029543: hw-detect: clarify use cases about searching for firmware packages on external media

2023-01-25 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2023-01-25, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Cyril Brulebois (2023-01-24): ... > # SD card images (might also be applicable to the upcoming ChromeOS images) > > Looking at how those images are built, it seems we have a predefined, > per-arch image size (150M or 200M), and gen-hd-image that's called in

Bug#1029543: hw-detect: clarify use cases about searching for firmware packages on external media

2023-01-25 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi Vagrant, Thanks for your feedback! Vagrant Cascadian (2023-01-25): > Well, empty space does compress quite well, at least! :D > Though a larger image would take a bit longer and burn a few extra > write cycles for those who did not need to actually use the space. I have no idea how much pe

Bug#1029543: hw-detect: clarify use cases about searching for firmware packages on external media

2023-01-25 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2023-01-26, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Vagrant Cascadian (2023-01-25): >> Though a larger image would take a bit longer and burn a few extra >> write cycles for those who did not need to actually use the space. > > I have no idea how much people care how much time is spent copying things > around