[Fedora-xen] Xen, Fedora, and UEFI Secure Boot

[M A Young]

On Fri, 29 Jun 2012, Dario Faggioli wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> First of all, apologizes if the issue has been discussed already (I
> joined only a couple of months ago), but I was wondering whether there
> already are plans on how to support that UEFI Secure Boot crazy (and
> I've been gentle :-P) thing from the point of view of the xen packages
> on Fedora.
>
> I mean, is some sort of binary signing involved? If so, are we already
> able to do it, or at least will we be able to take advantage of whatever
> Fedora will do with kernel images? Or is there something
> different/special we should consider?
>
> I'm not at all an expert of the matter, I was just reading about it and
> started wondering whether it would still be possible to have xen binary
> packages for Fedora (and of course for other distros too)...
>
> Some of the links I found about the subject:
> http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/5552.html
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2012-June/035445.html

Fedora's plans seem to be at
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/SecureBoot
It doesn't mention xen yet.

 	Michael Young