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| Authored by: Wol on Tuesday, March 05 2013 @ 05:19 AM EST |
Actually, while I can't make total sense of whatever is going on, I don't think
Red Hat want to trust MS at all. The BIG PROBLEM is that all your hardware
drivers are going to be loaded into EFI. And they're all going to be signed.
With MS keys!!!
(And without that driver, aka binary blob, your hardware may not work at all!)
All Red Hat want is for the user to have the ability to say "trust this
MS-signed PE blob". While Linus' attitude is "PE is nothing to do with
linux".
If we go with Linus and enable users to sign these blobs with their own keys,
then fine. The alternative suggestion, that has apparently been doing the
rounds, that Red Hat themselves sign these blobs, is not surprisingly
unacceptable to Red Hat.
So what this impasse is doing at the moment is preventing users from running
binary hardware drivers. Which may or may not be a good thing ...
Cheers,
Wol[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: rcsteiner on Tuesday, March 05 2013 @ 02:43 PM EST |
"The on-line discussion was filled with words unsuitable, even for
the Internet
Heh. Wow. You obviously don't remember USENET.
:-) ---
-Rich Steiner >>>---> Mableton, GA USA
The Theorem Theorem: If If, Then Then. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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