Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754538Ab2FZXKI (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Jun 2012 19:10:08 -0400 Received: from smtp.syd.comcen.com.au ([203.23.236.77]:3918 "EHLO smtp.syd.comcen.com.au" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753819Ab2FZXKG (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Jun 2012 19:10:06 -0400 Message-ID: <4FEA4102.2080900@spin.net.au> Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 09:08:50 +1000 From: Chris Jones User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120604 Firefox/13.0 SeaMonkey/2.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: UEFI and custom kernel Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-comcen-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-comcen-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-comcen-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-2.178, required 4, AWL 0.32, BAYES_00 -2.60, RDNS_NONE 0.10) X-comcen-MailScanner-From: chrisjones@spin.net.au Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1440 Lines: 32 I've been following the news on UEFI and Secureboot pretty closely. Currently Ubuntu, Fedora and OpenSUSE have pretty in-depth discussion going on the mailing lists about it all. Although my technical knowledge about UEFI is pretty vague at current, I know a little bit of what it's about. But getting to my question, how will this effect custom Linux kernels? Or will UEFI support (once added) be simply another kernel module that can just be carried over from official upstream kernel versions into a custom set? If custom kernels are going to all be locked out, then this is going to upset a lot of kernel developers, such as I! Regards -- Chris Jones @ kernel.devproject@gmail.com and oracle.kerneldev@gmail.com OpenSUSE Linux x86_64 (PC)|Android (Smartphone)|Windows 7 (Laptop)|Windows XP (Gaming) Linux kernel developer|Solaris kernel developer|Lead Developer of SDL|Lead Developer of Nest Linux Gamer and Emulator nut|Web Services|Digital Imaging Services Controllers: Rapier V2 Gaming mouse|Logitech Precision|PS3 controller|XB360 controller|Logitech Attack 3 j/stick Emulators: Fusion|Gens|ZSNES|Project64|PCSX-R|Stella|WinVICE|WinUAE|DOSBox -- 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/