Fedora 40 Eyes The Ability To Boot Unified Kernel Images Directly
Fedora 40 Eyes The Ability To Boot Unified Kernel Images Directly
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This latest UKI work for Fedora will lead to better UEFI Secure Boot support, better supporting TPM measurements and confidential computing, and a more robust boot process.
and HOPEFULLY lead to a less jerky-flashy-switchy boot xperience, looks like a Vegas light show at present. switched to systemd-boot, but it's only a tiny bit better, still switches modes/blanks screen like five times.
Mine only switches modes once, on load save backlight.
yeah, if you don't have an encrypted drive (which I'm gonna do on a laptop NEVER) on some OEMs this can look semi-seamless.
here's what it looks like on a laptop:
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- OEM logo
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- screen goes blank, backlight off
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- light on, OEM logo
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- blank screen
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- decrypt password
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- blank screen
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- loading spinner with OEM logo
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- gdm/sddm login screen
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- blank screen
- 9a. (sddm) loading animation
- 9b. (sddm) jerk when fractional scaling kicks in
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- and finally there's the desktop
with additional mode switching interjected and occasionally the horror that is GRUB inserts a 'Loading blah blah' text message; thankfully we're getting rid of that.
My HP crapbook doesn't have this OEM logo bullshit. Only the windows bootloader shows it, and the logo file is stored in the BGRT. So I don't think I'm affected unless the WBM or systemd-boot have this vuln.
Mine:
1. Screen turns on 2. I pick EndeavorOS in systemd-boot 3. It starts spitting out logs (I love this behavior) 4. It switches modes once the backlight is loaded 5. I log in 6. KDE loadsI will never understand people who install Plymouth, it just adds complexity in the boot process. If your distro installs this then I understand why: so it doesn't look like you're "hacking the government". If your distro doesn't install it and you install it then you probably picked the wrong distro.
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