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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, June 11 2012 @ 08:52 PM EDT |
> This is *much* more of a problem
It is only a problem for those that buy Windows RT ARM machines. They will not
run anything else, until 'secure boot' is hacked.
But they will be only a tiny proportion of all ARM tablets. Most will have iOS,
Android, Linux, or other OS and no one will try to put Windows RT on them.
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Authored by: celtic_hackr on Tuesday, June 12 2012 @ 01:09 PM EDT |
How do you figure that "secure boot", since you want to be pedantic in
your semantics, has to be enforced on AR?
ARM chips run Windows, Linux, iOS, and Android. So where's the enforcement you
speak of? Certainly it can be done. The Nook is a classic example of this, where
they built a system the prevents installing any other OS in a permanent way. But
many other makers do not do it. It's not required. Not by a long shot. It's has
always been possible, you just have to build the board in the right way and
install the right kind of firmware.
Although ARM is an entirely different beast, and I'm not an ARM developer. My
expertise in ARM is non-existent. It's like asking a family law lawyer to defend
you against a patent lawsuit. Sure both branches deal with law and require
lawyers, but one type of lawyer doesn't make an expert in all fields of law.
But, as far as I know there are no 16 core ARM processors, and in fact only AMD
has one that I know of (Opteron 6200). Intel hasn't released one yet
and for sure ARM hasn't. Quad core is as high as ARM CPUs go. Unless it's that
smoke-n-mirrors MS propaganda about a 16 core XBox, which if it comes out will
be a multi-CPU model or some super secret not yet released CPU, previously
unknown to the world.
FYI, when I spoke of UEFI, I was speaking of both UEFI and secure boot, because
they go hand in hand, and pretty much everyone talking about secure boot does so
in reference to the UEFI implementation of that.
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