State of SMBIOS patches

2016-08-11 Thread Ioan-Adrian Ratiu
Hello I also have usecases for the SMBIOS grub module posted at [1], mainly exposing chasis-specific BIOS info to multiple kernels through params. v6 was posted back in April and since then there's been no activity on mail/git other than someone also expressing his need for mainlining [2]. What'

Re: State of SMBIOS patches

2016-08-11 Thread David Michael
On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 3:37 AM, Ioan-Adrian Ratiu wrote: > What's the status of these patches? Do they need more work? I believe I've addressed all the comments the patches received with v6. Last I've heard, the maintainer wants to wait until version 2.03 to merge new features. Hopefully someo

Do grub-mkrescue GPT GUIDs need more entropy than --fs-uuid gets ?

2016-08-11 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i am discussing with Chris Lamb on reproducible-bui...@lists.alioth.debian.org how to make production of bootable ISOs reproducible. The last (yet known) obstacle are the pseudo-random GUIDs of the GPT which is produced for EFI bootability. Up to this obstacle it turned out that it will suffi