[PATCH 6/7] efi: Handle secure boot from UEFI-2.6 [ver #7]

David Howells dhowells at redhat.com
Wed Feb 1 07:00:17 PST 2017


Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org> wrote:

> From the OS pov, UserMode and DeployedMode are the same, the only
> difference being that AuditMode may be entered from UserMode simply by
> setting the variable to 0x1 (which can only be done before
> ExitBootServices()). And since AuditMode implies SetupMode (according
> to the diagram), you are right that we don't need to care about
> AuditMode either. AFAICT, that makes the entire patch unnecessary, so
> let's drop it for now.

Okay, in that case, do you want me to reissue and place a signed tag on my
patchset without that patch, or can you pull the other patches individually?

David



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