Re: Linux DRTM on UEFI platforms

Hi, On Fri, Aug 12, 2022 at 3:55 AM Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Thu, Aug 11, 2022 at 07:25:58PM +0930, Brendan Trotter wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 11, 2022 at 3:16 AM Matthew Garrett wrote: > > > The kernel has no way to know this - *any* code you've run before > > > per

Re: Linux DRTM on UEFI platforms

Hi, On Thu, Aug 11, 2022 at 3:16 AM Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Wed, Aug 10, 2022 at 06:37:18PM +0930, Brendan Trotter wrote: > > > [1] doesn't provide any useful information. How does a kernel know > > that the callback provided by boot loader actually measures what it's >

Re: Linux DRTM on UEFI platforms

Hi, On Tue, Aug 9, 2022 at 8:25 PM Daniel P. Smith wrote: > On 7/23/22 01:15, Brendan Trotter wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 23, 2022 at 2:53 AM Daniel P. Smith > > wrote: > >> On 7/7/22 23:36, Brendan Trotter wrote: > >>> On Thu, Jul 7, 2022 at 7:18 PM Daniel P. Smi

Re: Linux DRTM on UEFI platforms

Hi, On Sat, Jul 23, 2022 at 2:53 AM Daniel P. Smith wrote: > On 7/7/22 23:36, Brendan Trotter wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 7, 2022 at 7:18 PM Daniel P. Smith > > wrote: > >> On 7/5/22 20:03, Brendan Trotter wrote: > >>> On Wed, Jul 6, 2022 at 4:52 AM Daniel P. Smit

Re: Linux DRTM on UEFI platforms

Hi, On Thu, Jul 7, 2022 at 7:18 PM Daniel P. Smith wrote: > On 7/5/22 20:03, Brendan Trotter wrote: > Greetings! > > Not sure why I got dropped from distro, but no worries. > > > On Wed, Jul 6, 2022 at 4:52 AM Daniel P. Smith > > wrote: > >> On 6/10/22 12:4

Re: Linux DRTM on UEFI platforms

Hi, On Wed, Jul 6, 2022 at 4:52 AM Daniel P. Smith wrote: > On 6/10/22 12:40, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:> On Thu, 19 May 2022 at 22:59, > To help provide clarity, consider the following flows for comparison, > > Normal/existing efi-stub: > EFI -> efi-stub -> head_64.S > > Proposed secure launch: >

Re: the rootcause of the grub2 that can support USB keyboard

Hi, On 8/21/18, Sherry Zhang(BJ-RD) wrote: > But I have found the USB keyboard module-usb_keyboard.mod that I don't load > , > So why the usb keyboard can be used when I don't load usb modules? A better question is, why does "module-usb_keyboard.mod" exist in the first place? In theory, GRUB

Re: Grub2: add UEFI support for accessing memory address above 4GB.

Hi, > Le 7 mars 2017 17:24, "Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko" a écrit : > > I'd like to know more about the usecase. Generally you should avoid downloading or loading too large files in bootloader. I.a. TFTP protocol has problems with files over about 100MIB. Generally you

Re: chained grub2 derivative bootauto system

Hi, On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 11:59 PM, Lennart Sorensen lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca wrote: On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 09:19:43AM +1000, Philip Rhoades wrote: Ivo, Interesting idea - I particularly like the idea of booting from arbitrary isos. Too bad that accessing an iso on a usb key is

Re: RFC: New multiboot2 memory map entry type

Hi, On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 3:01 PM, Seth Goldberg seth.goldb...@oracle.com wrote: On 09.11.2011 06:25, Seth Goldberg wrote: The proposal is to add an additional type (value = 6) that denotes runtime memory that some firmware marks as required to be mapped to take advantage of services

Re: Legacy GRUB to GRUB2

Hi, On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 2:44 PM, Yash Jain yash2le...@gmail.com wrote: Could you please let me know how can i upgrade to GRUB2(because trusted GRUB is based on legacy GRUB) or it is still fine if i can use the legacy GRUB to load kernel 2.6.37. I'm still using GRUB-legacy with

Re: Contribution: a file loading module

Hi, Note: I am me. I speak on behalf of myself only, and don't represent the views of the GRUB team in any way. On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 7:03 PM, Pierre-Nicolas Clauss p...@tuxfamily.org wrote: Are you saying that : kernel /my_multiboot_kernel chainloader /my_chainloader boot will load the

Re: Two Small Patches (x86 VolId Sun Label Checking)

Hi, 2010/12/27 Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko phco...@gmail.com: On 12/26/2010 10:15 PM, ehem+g...@m5p.com wrote: Quite simple, the disk slice scheme detection routines vary in the quality of their detection. In particular, the MSDOS-style detection is *extremely* brittle. The only

Re: RFC: Plan for new hwmatch command

Hi, On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 3:28 PM, Evan Broder e...@ebroder.net wrote:   Based on some off-list discussion, I'd like to try a different angle for the Lua patches I submitted a week or two ago. For context, Ubuntu is interested in setting gfxpayload=keep as often as we can in the next

Re: Guidance on conflicts between GNU GRUB and proprietary software

Hi, Just thought I'd throw my 2 cents in.. Any software (except the software that owns the MBR) that uses any sectors that are in the first track with the MBR and outside of any partition (e.g. before the first partition) is broken. Not only will this broken software (potentially) conflict with

Re: Improperly nested partitions, help needed!

Hi, 2010/9/23 Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko phco...@gmail.com: On 09/22/2010 07:44 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 07:08:49PM +0200, Grégoire Sutre wrote: On 09/22/2010 18:44, Lennart Sorensen wrote: After all msdos partitions tables may only exist in MBR and

Re: 3. Re: LiveCD bootloader

Hi, 2010/9/15 Dmitry Ilyin idv1...@mail.ru: I guess it is possible to chainload to real cdrom in your drive same way we chainload to windows partition, you can also use script (grub or lua) to determine that your drive is not empty and show chainload menu entry. Or if you cannot chainload

Re: LiveCD bootloader

Hi, On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 12:12 PM, Teresa e Junior teresaejun...@gmail.com wrote: But due to some features I need (not the eyecandy), I noticed the CD only boots without gfx support (which is the most important for me). You can't really safely use graphics support in a Live-CD anyway. GRUB

Re: LiveCD bootloader

Hi, On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 2:39 PM, Brendan Trotter btrot...@gmail.com wrote: GRUB and Linux use video mode numbers to request a video mode. These video mode numbers can be different for different video cards. Early versions of VBE did define some standard mode numbers, but these became

Re: [RFC] Detect other software using embedding area

Hi, On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 8:28 PM, Colin Watson cjwat...@ubuntu.com wrote: When I blogged about this recently (and rather unexpectedly ended up on Slashdot), several people followed up to say that GRUB shouldn't be using the embedding area because it was never defined to be used for

Re: my thoughts about grub 2

Hi, On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 12:35 PM, BVK Chaitanya bvk.gro...@gmail.com wrote: If you could list out specific instances of what you felt is difficult, then it would be a lot helpful. A general comment like, its not good or difficult does not give any chance for improvements. If the English

Re: my thoughts about grub 2

Hi, On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 12:14 AM, Lennart Sorensen lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca wrote: On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 04:42:20PM +0930, Brendan Trotter wrote: On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 12:35 PM, BVK Chaitanya bvk.gro...@gmail.com wrote: If you could list out specific instances of what you felt

Re: my thoughts about grub 2

Hi, On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 3:27 AM, Lennart Sorensen lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca wrote: On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 03:18:53AM +0930, Brendan Trotter wrote: Um, what? Well at least update-grub reads from /etc to generate the final config (which is still /boot/grub/grub.cfg, so it does go

Re: Multiboot2 Suggestions

Hi, 2010/4/10 Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko phco...@gmail.com: Making sense out of arbitrary termcap strings isn't easy - it would add a large amount of mess to early OS initialisation code (which typically doesn't even have C library functions to rely on). A single integer saying

Re: Multiboot2 Suggestions

Hi, 2010/4/3 Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko phco...@gmail.com: Brendan Trotter wrote: 1) If GRUB was using a serial port as a console device (e.g. on a headless system) it'd be nice if the OS could continue using the same serial port with the same configuration instead of resetting

Multiboot2 Suggestions

Hi, 2010/3/28 Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko phco...@gmail.com: Also I'm aware that at least some people want more tags. Feel free to propose new ones. In short all ammendment ideas are welcome. Here's my list.. :-) 1) If GRUB was using a serial port as a console device (e.g. on a

Re: help ragarding Multiprocessor(MP) Configuration Table

Hi, On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 1:09 AM, mandar naik mandar...@yahoo.co.in wrote: So we wanted to know how what MP information is made available to grub on Intel core2duo architecture if MP Floating Point structure MP configuration table are not present. If Intel core2duo architecture is one of

Re: Using network informations from PXE as grub2 enviroment variables

Hi, On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 4:42 AM, Pavel Pisa p...@cmp.felk.cvut.cz wrote: As for scalability, I agree, that use of single config file with checking for each IP is horrible hack, but there is no problem to source to another IP specific file (menu-xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx.lst) with separate menu

Re: Handling multiple cores by GRUB

Hi, On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 10:51 PM, Swapnil Pimpale swapnil.p...@gmail.com wrote: Actually we are doing an academic project in which we need to have two cores of Intel Core 2 Duo, running inside the GRUB simultaneously. For that we need to send an IPI from primary core to the secondary core. 

Re: About firmware facilities

Hi, On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 11:36 PM, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko phco...@gmail.com wrote: Brendan Trotter wrote: No. Usuable means only that firmware isn't destroyed. Any device may be in a different state Any device (that the firmware assumes is in a certain state) may be left

Re: About firmware facilities

Hi, On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 6:29 PM, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko phco...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 1:23 AM, Brendan Trotter btrot...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 6:19 AM, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko phco...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 10:12 PM

Re: About firmware facilities

Hi, On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 1:02 AM, Robert Millan r...@aybabtu.com wrote: Well, you have the freedom to disagree with anything we do and bring your customized GRUB to a different direction :-) Anyhow, my priority for GRUB is strong driver-based support. We could recruit someone to develop

Re: About firmware facilities

Hi, On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 4:41 AM, Pavel Roskin pro...@gnu.org wrote: On Tue, 2009-09-15 at 04:27 +0930, Brendan Trotter wrote: Hi, On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 1:02 AM, Robert Millan r...@aybabtu.com wrote: Well, you have the freedom to disagree with anything we do and bring your customized

Re: About firmware facilities

Hi, On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 6:19 AM, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko phco...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 10:12 PM, Brendan Trotter btrot...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 4:41 AM, Pavel Roskin pro...@gnu.org wrote: On Tue, 2009-09-15 at 04:27 +0930, Brendan Trotter wrote

Re: About firmware facilities

Hi, On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 9:13 AM, Colin Watson cjwat...@ubuntu.com wrote: I don't have relevant experience regarding multiboot in general, but ... On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 08:53:12AM +0930, Brendan Trotter wrote: The same would apply to internationalization - GRUB should tell the OS which

Re: About firmware facilities

Hi, On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 9:58 AM, Colin Watson cjwat...@ubuntu.com wrote: On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 09:26:55AM +0930, Brendan Trotter wrote: An OS could choose to use the information provided by GRUB, or choose to ignore the information provided by GRUB. Sure, but the less code that needs