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| -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 |