On 15 June 2012 09:58, Greg KH <gre...@gentoo.org> wrote: > So, anyone been thinking about this? I have, and it's not pretty. > > Should I worry about this and how it affects Gentoo, or not worry about > Gentoo right now and just focus on the other issues?
I think it at least makes sense to talk about it, and work out what we can and cannot do. I guess we're in an especially bad position since everybody builds their own bootloader. Is there /any/ viable solution that allows people to continue doing this short of distributing a first-stage bootloader blob? > Minor details like, "do we have a 'company' that can pay Microsoft to > sign our bootloader?" is one aspect from the non-technical side that I've > been wondering about. Sounds like something the Gentoo Foundation could do. -- Arun Raghavan http://arunraghavan.net/ (Ford_Prefect | Gentoo) & (arunsr | GNOME)
