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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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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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How can UEFI be required for Arm without running into anti-trust ? |
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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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