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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: UEFI secure boot and Gentoo
Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2012 17:25:53
Message-Id: 4FDE12E8.7050806@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: UEFI secure boot and Gentoo by Greg KH
1 Greg KH wrote:
2 > On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 06:37:41PM -0500, Steev Klimaszewski wrote:
3 >> Just picking a random response to reply to. I'm not speaking
4 >> officially, however, I'm pretty sure we at Genesi aren't going to pay
5 >> Microsoft in order to boot our own boards.
6 > If you don't want your boards to be Windows 8 certified, then you are
7 > fine. Otherwise, you have to follow their guidelines, which I don't
8 > think requires paying them any money if you want to run Windows 8.
9 >
10 > Also, as these are "your own boards", you control the BIOS, so you don't
11 > even have to implement UEFI, or, if you do, you can control what keys
12 > are installed in the BIOS by default.
13 >
14 > So I don't understand the issue here, please explain.
15 >
16 > greg k-h
17 >
18 > .
19 >
20
21
22 I'm glad you said that. If I was going to have to pay M$ to run Linux,
23 I was thinking of shooting them with laser eyes or something. I have no
24 plans to ever support M$ in any shape, form or fashion. Period.
25
26 Thing is, they will likely try to make it so you can't disable it
27 eventually. Some politician will try to make it a law if nothing else.
28 After all, politicians are clueless anyway. Reminds me of chickens and
29 it raining. :/
30
31 Dale
32
33 :-) :-)
34
35 --
36 I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!
37
38 Miss the compile output? Hint:
39 EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n"