Re: libreboot? Doc to follow? -- Re: Secure boot - Uefi installation

[Joel Rees <joel.rees@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 7:31 AM, Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> wrote:
> fc@AreYouForThePeople.org wrote:
>>
>>Hello:
>>
>>2 things:
>>
>>a. Even given all of their recent "damage" to themselves,
>>how does Libreboot play into this?  Is there a guide with respect to
>>Debian that people can use to go the Libreboot route -- supported
>>by this list?
>
> Pass.
>
>>b. This UEFI crap - and Microsoft/Intel trying to lock everything to
>>themselves crap is crappy.
>>
>>Has anyone gathered all of these UEFI steps and good workarounds into
>>One place that people can follow?
>
> UEFI as a design is fine,

If the option is nothing or UEFI, I'm still not sure which I'd take.

For a decent processor, I think I'd actually prefer raw hardware, but
such a decent processor doesn't exist. Nor do the I/O devices I'd be
able to attach to it.

Different people have different ideas of what they want, I guess.
(Shoot, I even have different ideas of what I want. ;-/ )

> but there are a lot of crappy
> implementations out there. Just like there are lots of crappy
> BIOSes. :-(
>
> For more information about UEFI and Debian, I wrote a long wiki page
> at
>
>   https://wiki.debian.org/UEFI

Thanks. Looks useful.

> Please check that out, and please ask if anything's not clear.
>
> --
> Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                steve@einval.com
> Is there anybody out there?

Nobody out here but us chickens.


-- 
Joel Rees

I'm imagining I'm a computer scientist.

http://defining-computers.blogspot.com/2017/04/model-boot-up-process-description-with.html