Updated POTs for UEFI Secure Boot Guide

[Eric Christensen]

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On 02/04/2013 02:59 PM, Domingo Becker wrote:
> 2013/2/4 Eric Christensen <sparks at fedoraproject.org>:
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>> I released version 18.2.3 of the Fedora UEFI Secure Boot Guide
>> this morning.  Over the past week the guide has been greatly
>> modified. Lots of content has been added and we wanted to make
>> sure this got out there sooner than later.
>> 
> 
> I have problems translating the word 'shim'.

Hmmm, yeah that does seem to be an odd word.  It might be more of a
name than a word I guess.
> 
> It seems to be a piece of code that starts the boot process.
> 
> Would you please give an explanation about 'shim' or a synonym for
> it?

The shim is the piece of code that sits between the UEFI firmware and
GRUB and kernel to cryptographically verify all the bits.

- -- Eric

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Eric "Sparks" Christensen
Fedora Project | Red Hat

sparks at redhat.com - sparks at fedoraproject.org
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