Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 31 Oct 2012 17:37:28 +0000 | From | Matthew Garrett <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] Second attempt at kernel secure boot support |
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On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 06:28:16PM +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> request_firmware() is used for microcode loading, too, so it's fairly > a core part to cover, I'm afraid. > > I played a bit about this yesterday. The patch below is a proof of > concept to (ab)use the module signing mechanism for firmware loading > too. Sign firmware files via scripts/sign-file, and put to > /lib/firmware/signed directory.
That does still leave me a little uneasy as far as the microcode licenses go. I don't know that we can distribute signed copies of some of them, and we obviously can't sign at the user end.
-- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
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