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anatol
Support UEFI Executable generation with systemd stubs
This is probably a nice weekend hack for someone, but generating UEFI executables is a must have feature for initramfs generators these days. My WIP patch for mkinitcpio serves as a very nice outline.
Someone that want to try contribute to this project can probably take a stab at it :) Else I can implement it once I have less on my todo list. I'll help review it if needed!
https://github.com/archlinux/mkinitcpio/pull/53
Yes the idea is interesting.
Looking at your patch - how do you sign the result efi boot image?
dracut allows you to specify a signing key and it uses sbsign. For mkinitcpio I'd rather implement some "post image generation" hook that would let you use sbctl, but personally this is run with a separate pacman hook for sbctl currently.
If you do want to use golang for this, you could consider using go-uefi.
https://github.com/Foxboron/go-uefi/blob/master/cmd/gosign/main.go
But the API isn't really stable and needs a lot more work.
Yeah, a golang lib is preferable. API stability is not much of concern (thanks to golang modules).
Same topic as https://github.com/anatol/booster/issues/110. It doesn't necessarily need to be in Booster.
