Re: [Libreboot-dev] booting from sd-card

[Robert Alessi]

On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 07:51:52PM +0200, Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Oct 2014 18:17:37 +0200
> Robert Alessi <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
[...]
> > I wonder if there's any other way to tell Grub how to find a keyfile
> > which is on a SD card.
> There are some other hardware related ways.
> The one that work is to buy a (compact) usb<->microsd adapter. That way
> the microsd with its will be recognized as an usb key. It's very far
> from perfect though.

To my opinion, bare usb is better than usb<->microsd.  I thought of sd
because I own an X60s which has a very convenient sd slot.  At present,
I have an unencrypted /boot partition which I would like to encrypt.

> Else someone will have to add support for SD cards. Some very
> experimental(working?) patches exist for SeaBIOS and maybe for some
> other payloads(depthcharge?).

Thanks.  I will look into this.

> So that would require to code a driver for it for coreboot and/or grub.

Which is unfortunately beyond y skills.
 
> RFC1855 says that we should respond after the quote. Or maybe you
> forgott to remove the huge quote.

Should we?  I wasn't aware of this part of the Netiquette. But actually
I forgot to remove the lines.  Sorry.  

Thank you for your time and the informations.

Robert

> 
> Denis.
>

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