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On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 9:33 PM, Richard Yao <ryao@g.o> wrote: |
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> On 06/19/2012 09:25 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> We would gain a faster boot process. We would also enable people to |
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> avoid paying money for keys that can be revoked without a refund. |
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While I have no doubt that a determined team could make a firmware |
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that booted marginally faster, I don't get the bit about not paying |
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for keys. |
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You don't have to pay anybody for a key to boot with UEFI - you just |
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need to either disable secure boot, or install your own keys. I can't |
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see how installing your own keys is going to be harder than flashing |
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the entire BIOS, and if you still want secure boot presumably you |
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still have to install your own keys. |
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If somebody wants to make a generic UEFI bootloader for PCs they |
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should by all means do so - I'm sure people would find use for it. I |
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just don't see it as an essential ingredient for Gentoo. If I really |
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wanted to mess with my BIOS I'd probably be loading core boot on it. |
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Rich |
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