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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, June 25 2012 @ 04:52 PM EDT |
I'm a little confused over driver signing. Once the system is booted do the
drivers need to be signed for a device to work? What I read makes me tend to
think so, that UEFI/Secure boot acts as some form of gatekeeper. However,
surely drivers are somewhat detached from the kernel? So I can't see that that
would work - how would UEFI know exactly what binaries were reading and writing
to the hardware.
If this were not the case why could a simple boot-loader not be produced, signed
once for the entire Linux community (and BSD, Haiku etc) with a suitable key
that then would chain-load grub2, lilo or other boot-loader of choice which
could then boot an arbitrary kernel. This seems obvious yet is not mentioned.
Therefore I assume that there is an obvious reason why it would not work.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, June 26 2012 @ 12:14 AM EDT |
Note that if you type HTML formatted text of href="http:/www.abc.efg"
the link will become http://groklawstatic.ibiblio.org/www.abc.efg/ when previewd or
submitted.
Ensure you type double slash as in
href="http://www.abc.efg" within your HTML formatted text.
I have
corrected it below :)
Please help us fight UEFI Secure Boot: www.coreboot.org - you don't have to be a
coder, just spend some time becoming familiar with the project. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: TiddlyPom on Tuesday, June 26 2012 @ 07:11 AM EDT |
One of the few shining lights left in the world is System 76 - a Canadian company who produce
PCs DESIGNED to run Ubuntu (and preloaded with Ubuntu).
I am about to
sell my Apple Mac (which I bought since I wanted to support Windows, OS/X and
Linux) but I am so disgusted by the locked-down direction that Apple are moving
in that I want to move over to s System 76 PC instead. They still use ye olde
style BIOS (not UEFI) at the moment but the perfect solution would be if
System 76 started to use CoreBoot!
My
questions
I am 99% convinced to buy a Gazelle Professional (I
use Ubuntu both professionally and at home along with RHEL/CentOS and Debian).
Is the BIOS (1) Ye olde BIOS, (2) UEFI or (3) CoreBoot? I do not want to support
encrypted boot in any way - you are however a fantastic company in supporting
the use of Linux :)
System 76's reply
Hi (My
Name)
Thank you for your email. The machines will use the traditional
bios, although there are some UEFI extension that can be
enabled/disabled.
What we need are more companies like
this.
--- Support Software Freedom - use GPL licenced software like
Linux and LibreOffice instead of proprietary software like Microsoft
Windows/Office or Apple OS/X [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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