Re: EFI in Debian
On Sat, Jul 07, 2012 at 11:09:57PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote:
> * Steve Langasek (vorlon@debian.org) [120707 22:54]:
> > On Fri, Jul 06, 2012 at 10:14:01AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> > > If OTOH we have to pay a fee just for our software to work on platforms
> > > that just happen to be using Microsoft’s certificate, this is clearly
> > > abusive. I would object to do so, and I believe we would (at least in
> > > Europe) have a very strong case in court against such practice.
> > Note that the Windows 8 requirements stipulate that users must in all cases
> > retain the ability to disable Secure Boot on their x86 systems from the
> > firmware. It's really a question of ease of installation, and whether
> > Secure Boot provides any additional security protection that we think it's
> > worth providing to Debian users out of the box.
> IIRC it's not the same on embedded hardware.
The distinction is between x86 and ARM, and the Windows 8 cert requirements
for ARM appear to have as their goal to prevent any other OS to be bootable
on that hardware. So I don't think you should expect MS to sign any UEFI
ARM bootloader binaries at all.
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