Re: EFI BoF at DebConf
On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 01:26:28AM +0200, Stefan Lippers-Hollmann wrote:
>Hi
>
>On Saturday 21 July 2012, Steve McIntyre wrote:
>[…]
>> Likelihood of changes in MS requirements via public pressure vs pressure on OEMs?
>> MS are not an implementor, certifier instead. Working with individual OEMs
>> won't provide 100% coverage. Some clarifications have been made as a result of
>> bad press from the initial announcements.
>
>That ship has sailed, the first secure boot enabled consumer systems
>are already shipping[1] and windows 8 is about to go gold in roughly
>two weeks. Therefore both the specification and the first generation of
>its implementation can be considered to be set in stone by now.
ACK, for now. Further pressure *might* change their spec for ARM, or
in future versions. Maybe...
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