[Libosinfo] [PATCH 5/8] API to query signed status of device drivers

[Christophe Fergeau]

On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 05:18:44AM +0200, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote:
> From: "Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)" <zeeshanak at gnome.org>
> 
> Some vendors recommend or require device drivers to be signed by them
> before these device drivers could be installed on their OS.

It would be nice to explain somewhere what 'signed' means for Windows, as
there can be multiple signatures on a driver (vendor and MS). Also, this
could be interesting to know if this scheme would work for
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/PackageSignatureCheckingDuringOSInstall?rd=Features/PackageSignatureCheckingDuringInstall
(if relevant), but it's probably a bit early for that :(



> diff --git a/data/oses/windows.xml.in b/data/oses/windows.xml.in
> index 1b762f8..f60786c 100644
> --- a/data/oses/windows.xml.in
> +++ b/data/oses/windows.xml.in
> @@ -383,7 +383,7 @@
>      </installer>
>  
>      <!-- virtio block device driver -->
> -    <driver arch="i386" location="http://zeenix.fedorapeople.org/drivers/win-tools/preinst/winxp/x86" pre-installable="true" format="windows">
> +    <driver arch="i386" location="http://zeenix.fedorapeople.org/drivers/win-tools/preinst/winxp/x86" pre-installable="true" format="windows" signed="false">

These changes are not strictly needed as FALSE is the default for 'signed'
Looks good otherwise,

Christophe
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