Re: Shim and secure boot status, leading up to bookworm

[Jeremy Hall <uujhall@gmail.com>]

Hi,

When things get built, will there be a path forward for people who
might need grub modules like serial console for accessibility reasons?

Thanks

_J

On 1/25/23, Antonio Terceiro <terceiro@debian.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 25, 2023 at 06:11:45PM +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote:
>> Hey all!
>>
>> Here's a status update and plans for SB and shim. If any of this is
>> unclear or you have doubts, please say!
>>
>> We currently have *signed* shim *15.4* packages in the archive, for
>> all of buster, bullseye, bookworm and sid. That works OK at the
>> moment, but is getting old (July 2021) and needs updating soonish.
>>
>> I uploaded shim *15.6* in July 2022 and we attempted to get that
>> signed too. Reviews were positive, but due to process problems around
>> Microsoft uploads and then a long delay on getting a needed EV
>> certificate renewed we never managed to get that signed. :-(
>>
>> The MS and cert issues are now both resolved, and I'm now working on a
>> shim *15.7* upload. There's a little more work and testing to do, but
>> I'm not far off. Yay?
>
> Have the issues with arm64 been fixed? Will this release provide a
> signed arm64 shim?
>