Re: [RFC PATCH v2] x86/boot: add .sbat section to the bzImage

[Matthew Garrett]

On Fri, Jul 14, 2023 at 10:52:20AM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:

> Maybe the OEMs have gotten better at this over the years, but it is
> definitely not possible for the distros to rely on being able to get
> their own cert into KEK and sign their builds directly.

Getting certs into local machine databases should[1] be possible on all 
Windows certified machines, but in the status-quo there's no 
cross-vendor solution to doing this. Relying on the Shim-provided 
mechanisms is much safer from a consistency perspective.

[1] Every time someone has claimed it's impossible to me I've ended up 
demonstrating otherwise, but that's not a guarantee