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Hilton San Diego Bayfront - San Diego, CA
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Friday, August 23 • 2:25pm - 3:00pm
UEFI Secure Boot in U-Boot - Grant Likely, Arm*

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The PC world and embedded systems have mostly followed their own paths when it comes to firmware design. PCs grew up around BIOS followed by EFI which eventually became the UEFI specification, and finally gaining Secure Boot for verifying OS images. Embedded has used many different firmware projects, with U-Boot becoming the most popular, and as such has developed its own interfaces and methods for verifying and booting an OS.

Unfortunately very little of the U-Boot interface has been standardised which resulted in every U-Boot platform behaving slightly differently. This makes it very difficult for OS distributions to support more than a handful of embedded platforms. To solve this problem, U-Boot is in the process of adopting the UEFI standard for ABI and boot behaviour, including secure boot functionality. This presentation will go over the current state of UEFI and Secure Boot on U-Boot, including how to use it and future plans.
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Grant Likely

Senior Technical Director, Arm
Grant Likely is an embedded system architect and developer with a long history in the Linux community. Grant began building embedded Linux systems in 2004 and quickly got involved with the community. He maintained several platforms and subsystems, including SPI and GPIO, and lead... Read More →

2019.08.23 UEFI Secure Boot on U Boot pdf
Friday August 23, 2019 2:25pm - 3:00pm PDT
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  Embedded Linux Conference
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