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Re: debian-cd BoF at DebConf



On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 05:19:40PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote:
> EFI and Secure Boot
> ===================
> 
> Just a brief mention here - there was a separate BoF about this and
> I'll summarise that shortly. I think it's much too late in the release
> process to get Secure Boot working for Wheezy, but we *do* need to get
> EFI working. (Bug#658352). This should be do-able, but we'll need to
> get lots of help with testing. I currently don't have any EFI-capable
> machines at all, so need to fix that for simple development/testing
> purposes anyway. Maybe worth asking the DPL for some Debian money to
> acquire some machines for this. There will be a call for testing once
> we have some stuff done.

For the avoidance of any doubt: no problem in buying the needed
hardware.

And while I'm at it: thanks a lot for your examplar work in preparing,
holding, and summarizing DebConf BoFs. For one thing, I'm catching up
now and your summaries are being extremely useful. Kudos!

Cheers.
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