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On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 01:48:05AM -0400, Philip Webb wrote: |
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> 120614 Greg KH 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 |
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> > or not worry about Gentoo right now and just focus on the other issues? |
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> > Minor details like, "do we have a 'company' that can pay Microsoft |
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> > to sign our bootloader?" is one aspect from the non-technical side. |
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> > I did a lot of UEFI secure boot work in the past at SUSE |
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> > and should be soon a member of the UEFI "organization" |
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> > through my work at the Linux Foundation, so I do have a basic grasp |
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> > of the issues involved and have a chance to get changes made, |
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> > if needed and possible, to the spec itself. |
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> Does this affect those of us who build our own machines ? |
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Yes, it will be on your new motherboard in a matter of months. |
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> Is there likely to be any Gentoo user |
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> who is reluctant to change the default BIOS setting ? |
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Probably lots. |
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> How can UEFI be required for Arm without running into anti-trust ? |
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Different countries have different rules here. |
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> How far is this basically a problem for those in the USA, |
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> the rest of us having a different attitude to security issues ? |
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Everyone in all countries are going to have to deal with this, as all |
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motherboard manufacturers are going to be supporting this by the end of |
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this year at the latest, due to the Windows 8 requirements. |
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greg k-h |
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