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On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 5:01 PM, Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Fri, May 02, 2014 at 04:41:41PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
>
>  > And I think we can also further break this down into the classes of
>  > code which require root privs (i.e., like kexec), and those which can
>  > be used by any userid.
>
> In the brave new world of secure boot, we kind of have to care about
> even the root cases now too [*], but I agree in the general case.

Speaking of that... is it worth my time to propose a "What to do about
the secure_modules/trusted_kernel/whatever patch set that distros are
carrying to support Secure Boot?  I thought we had agreement and a
path forward at LPC last year, but things seem to have gotten derailed
again.

josh