[tboot-devel] booting tboot directly as EFI STUB?

2016-04-18 Thread Jan Schermer
Hello, is it possible to add support for loading tboot directly instead of using GRUB, in the same way Linux kernel supports it? https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/efi-stub.txt This would greatly simplify the setup of tboot and remove one unnecessary component (grub) which presents a quite

Re: [tboot-devel] booting tboot directly as EFI STUB?

2016-04-18 Thread Sun, Ning
Hi Jan, Thanks for your email, currently tboot works with grub on both UEFI and legacy platforms. Meanwhile, we are working on a PoC of UEFI 64 bit tboot, which will support multiple usages including what you mentioned in your email. As this work is non-trivial, any suggestions/proposals are wel

Re: [tboot-devel] booting tboot directly as EFI STUB?

2016-04-18 Thread Jan Schermer
Thank you for your reply. I am new to tboot, now in the process of designing our own PoC around it. I am also only a user (sorry for invading your -devel list) but so far I can point to those areas for improvement from my perspective: 1) documentation - examples! (gentoo wiki is a prime

Re: [tboot-devel] booting tboot directly as EFI STUB?

2016-04-18 Thread Dr. Greg Wettstein
On Apr 18, 8:55pm, Jan Schermer wrote: } Subject: Re: [tboot-devel] booting tboot directly as EFI STUB? Good afternoon, I hope this note finds the day going well for everyone. > > > -Original Message- > > > From: Jan Schermer [mailto:j...@schermer.cz] > > > Sent: Monday, April 18, 2016