[PATCH 15/24] boards: qemu-virt: add security policies

[Ahmad Fatoum]

Hi,

On 8/21/25 16:15, Sascha Hauer wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 21, 2025 at 08:57:10AM +0200, Ahmad Fatoum wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 8/20/25 15:17, Sascha Hauer wrote:
>>> From: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum at barebox.org>
>>>
>>> To make it easier to experiment with security policies, add four example
>>> configurations, two via the build system and two "externally".
>>
>> The configs need a make security_olddefconfig due to the addition of the
>> new symbols in later commits.
> 
> Indeed.
> 
> One thing I just noticed is that the qemu-virt board is built for both
> 32bit and 64bit boards. The sconfig files are currently suitable for the
> 32bit variant, but enabling security policies in multi_v8_defconfig
> results in a
> 
> Security policy qemu-virt-lockdown.sconfig.tmp was not up to date.
> 
> This is not a problem since security policies are only enabled in
> virt32_secure_defconfig, but nevertheless that's something we might want
> to improve somehow.

You can get the same message too in multi_v7_defconfig if we start
configuring things differently to virt32_secure_defconfig..

There's potential for future improvement for sure, yes.

Cheers,
Ahmad

> 
> Sascha
> 

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