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