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| author | Jan Janssen <medhefgo@web.de> | 2022-10-31 09:52:56 +0100 |
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| committer | Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net> | 2022-10-31 11:08:13 +0100 |
| commit | 6e50cf38a6196af0d46b274c29125b6e58d310bb (patch) | |
| tree | 1db0f864d089f779fc8d146d441e94dc647c2db8 /NEWS | |
| parent | 0e523432aa0c6531203c5d9b6fe220a19df6b99b (diff) | |
| download | systemd-6e50cf38a6196af0d46b274c29125b6e58d310bb.tar.gz | |
NEWS: Clarify overlapping UKI PE section offsets
Diffstat (limited to 'NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 10 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
@@ -229,8 +229,14 @@ CHANGES WITH 252 in spe: * The sd-boot stub exports a StubFeatures flag, which is used by bootctl to show features supported by the stub that was used to boot. - * sd-boot will now try to detect and warn about overlapping PE sections - in the UKI. + * The PE section offsets that are used by tools that assemble unified + kernel images have historically been hard-coded. This may lead to + overlapping PE sections which may break on boot. The UKI will now try + to detect and warn about this. + + Any tools that assemble UKIs must update to calculate these offsets + dynamically. Future sd-stub versions may use offsets that will not + work with the currently used set of hard-coded offsets! * sd-stub now accepts (and passes to the initrd and then to the full OS) new PE sections '.pcrsig' and '.pcrkey' that can be used to embed |