Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752733Ab2KEHY1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Nov 2012 02:24:27 -0500 Received: from out01.mta.xmission.com ([166.70.13.231]:47158 "EHLO out01.mta.xmission.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751860Ab2KEHYZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Nov 2012 02:24:25 -0500 From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) To: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Matthew Garrett , James Bottomley , Pavel Machek , Chris Friesen , Eric Paris , Jiri Kosina , Oliver Neukum , Alan Cox , Josh Boyer , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org, linux-efi@vger.kernel.org References: <20121102175416.GA11816@srcf.ucam.org> <1351879058.2439.46.camel@dabdike.int.hansenpartnership.com> <20121102180458.GA12052@srcf.ucam.org> <1351899503.2439.49.camel@dabdike.int.hansenpartnership.com> <20121103002244.GC18691@srcf.ucam.org> <1351944236.2417.7.camel@dabdike.int.hansenpartnership.com> <20121103134630.GA28166@srcf.ucam.org> <1351983400.2417.21.camel@dabdike.int.hansenpartnership.com> <20121104042802.GA11295@srcf.ucam.org> <1352020487.2427.5.camel@dabdike.int.hansenpartnership.com> <20121104135251.GA17894@srcf.ucam.org> <87d2zsmv8r.fsf@xmission.com> <509766DB.9090906@zytor.com> Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2012 23:24:17 -0800 In-Reply-To: <509766DB.9090906@zytor.com> (H. Peter Anvin's message of "Mon, 05 Nov 2012 08:12:27 +0100") Message-ID: <87625kh5r2.fsf@xmission.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-XM-AID: U2FsdGVkX1+/xiYpK9qBxJVgtDw6j7uxMvr6oMZ32xg= X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 98.207.153.68 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ebiederm@xmission.com X-Spam-Report: * -1.0 ALL_TRUSTED Passed through trusted hosts only via SMTP * 0.0 T_TM2_M_HEADER_IN_MSG BODY: T_TM2_M_HEADER_IN_MSG * -3.0 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayes spam probability is 0 to 1% * [score: 0.0000] * -0.0 DCC_CHECK_NEGATIVE Not listed in DCC * [sa07 1397; Body=1 Fuz1=1 Fuz2=1] X-Spam-DCC: XMission; sa07 1397; Body=1 Fuz1=1 Fuz2=1 X-Spam-Combo: ;"H. Peter Anvin" X-Spam-Relay-Country: Subject: Re: [RFC] Second attempt at kernel secure boot support X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Sun, 08 Jan 2012 03:05:19 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on in02.mta.xmission.com) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 773 Lines: 22 "H. Peter Anvin" writes: > On 11/05/2012 07:14 AM, Eric W. Biederman wrote: >> >> In any case the notion that unattended install with no user interaction >> on any uefi machine in any state is complete and total rubbish. It >> can't be done. You need power and you need boot media. >> > > That is a hugely different thing from needing a console. Not at all. In the general case user intereaction is required to tell the system to boot off of your choosen boot media instead of the local hard drive. Eric -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/