On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 10:33 PM, Michael Gorven<mich...@gorven.za.net> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 10:27:59PM +0200, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko > wrote: >>>> >>>> Since we're going to say no anyway, there's no reason to do it later. >>>> The >>>> longer we wait the stronger they'll be, and the more difficult for us to >>>> reject their unreasonable demands. >>> >>> Because there are valid use cases that aren't about restricting the >>> owner's >>> freedom. >> >> Yes but the cost is too high. And few people who really need high >> security can afford coreboot motherboard. > > Your coreboot solution isn't really feasible. The flashed BIOS would contain > a checksum of the bootloader, which means that you can't change the > bootloader once the BIOS is flashed. Since the bootloader contains a > checksum of the kernel, you can't change the kernel either. > Signatures. > -- http://michael.gorven.za.net/ > PGP Key ID 6612FE85 > S/MIME Key ID AAF09E0E > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > > iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJKjGGgAAoJEIOxIz1l+OmhbikP/RhE5ToVXuBjPxolIbTQVOVM > 5SbmeCDA8Uu6H0eB4VoISxjJZ5hySObOMuDRjGua2ABfqxfxE8+yQARzbtaBq6tn > COPWFoc8hMlcq1JptwsM16R+Qe2inM0Lp/Zew6npLVRWHv1ouQUsiRDp3QiWFVwQ > ao+U+WfG532mDMgDlyPRamflsBxtzmg+Eb0v26OBAzh6T+k5bBAWUmbFo+iKfhp8 > pnb1j0YUxBxuOHsfQBlDytAwRzNoB4u7MP86LFwjoilo+xaCIw/7wLwq8GRfASEX > gspgrL0vKUErxHGAYSLNkOW/DfUj82GTKO6NXEiqA7b9jMCIdNiz7CanbZQun+qK > EICT1mB8FmWsqYjJJI+I5f1K12TQJGy/VWAejs9M/JUZA1dCPSF1q0jxtNEOluOO > O+4+mJ8zzzt22A+p9RbANR34ix/5zG4z4T9erBqt6/+36b8FYNTth7z6S8qksW4V > rzS76UMhSydNItFfAEgkywWI1TDrGxFcynY9vncdFiOBKFf/vIFbzJdYA1FRL5PT > j5+0pZ8WbqokjqeLNOXYSOt/kMSRFuA1goL+io3aBMNajire55j+Ff5rKZ1PmamJ > 8xArEgEMvoLX09FamxQ0BCcB1XPNDBzZ4sby+uTORic+h7YkKMiAkK8Rv78nOHmc > f3Y/7dZtLqEUSEF9Eq6L > =T4Gi > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Grub-devel mailing list > Grub-devel@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel > >
-- Regards Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko Personal git repository: http://repo.or.cz/w/grub2/phcoder.git _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel