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On 15 June 2012 09:58, Greg KH <gregkh@g.o> wrote: |
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> So, anyone been thinking about this? I have, and it's not pretty. |
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> Should I worry about this and how it affects Gentoo, or not worry about |
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> Gentoo right now and just focus on the other issues? |
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I think it at least makes sense to talk about it, and work out what we |
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can and cannot do. |
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I guess we're in an especially bad position since everybody builds |
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their own bootloader. Is there /any/ viable solution that allows |
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people to continue doing this short of distributing a first-stage |
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bootloader blob? |
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> Minor details like, "do we have a 'company' that can pay Microsoft to |
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> sign our bootloader?" is one aspect from the non-technical side that I've |
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> been wondering about. |
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Sounds like something the Gentoo Foundation could do. |
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-- |
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Arun Raghavan |
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http://arunraghavan.net/ |
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(Ford_Prefect | Gentoo) & (arunsr | GNOME) |
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