Re: kernel modules does not have signatures, so taints kernel

To: Anatoly Pugachev <matorola@gmail.com>, debian-kernel@lists.debian.org
Cc: debian-sparc <debian-sparc@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: kernel modules does not have signatures, so taints kernel
From: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>
Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2016 14:38:44 +0200
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On 06/01/2016 02:34 PM, Anatoly Pugachev wrote:
> If module signing only for Secure Boot on EFI [2], why do we have it on sparc64?

Looks like an oversight to me. The kernels for the different architectures share
some of the configuration, so it might just be a bug that this particular option
should be set on architectures only which support SecureBoot.

Adrian

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