Linux Foundation Secure-Boot compatible UEFI boot loader released

We have been using Matt Garret's shim since last December for our Fatdog64 testing purposes. Our general feeling is that while it works (and it works well), it is not user-friendly.

Linux-Foundation's UEFI PreLoader fulfills the same function and needs are shim; and from what we can see it may be a bit simpler for those who just bypass Secure Boot (as opposed to shim, which intends to use Secure Boot to make Linux boots securely). But while it was conceived first, its release was delayed - shim got released first and that's why we use it.

But the news is in: It has been released!. This is good news, and we will probably play with it for Fatdog64. However, as Fatdog64 is so close to beta, we will have to make a decision whether to postpone beta or postpone the testing with the preloader.

We will see. Either way, Matt said that he and James Bottomley (the one who did the preloader) are planning to combine effort and merge their works. Meanwhile, let's just celebrate that we now have two alternative ways of working with Secure Boot machines. Ah, the joy of open source

Posted on 12 Feb 2013, 23:42 - Categories: Linux
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