On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 10:28 AM, Thomas Bächler <thomas@archlinux.org>wrote:
Am 10.12.2012 06:54, schrieb kristof:
As it stands, Gummiboot doesn't support calling back to Matthew Garrett's shim and until this happens it won't work in secure boot mode.
Could you refer to any documentation about this? Why would the boot loader need to call back into shim?
Lastly, the shim itself needs to be pulled into [extra] and it should come with some script like "shim-install" which would simply rename the grub-efi binary as grubx64.efi and would place the shim in /boot/efi/EFI/BOOT/x86_64/, renaming it bootx64.efi. Not so difficult at all, but it's another thing to do.
There has been a discussion about this topic just a few days ago. I suggest you read it first.
Indeed, we shouldn't package packages just because they might build.
I also don't see a reason why Archlinux should support secure boot, it's only forced on ARM. I would never run it on my laptop even if I had support for it. -- Jelle van der Waa