On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Pablo Manalastas <[email protected]> wrote: > > Very bad. I meant that uClinux, being an embedded system, > does not boot from hard disk, but comes from ROM, PROM, EEPROM, > flash, etc. And this includes the election application. > The reason that my post mentioned ROM is because that is what > the tech person at the Smartmatic presentation at Comelec > told me. > > The mentioned of "non-volatile" storage, is an error here. > It might have been one of my senior moments. Sorry.
Is there a policy of signing the code that is embedded in the chip? And verification of the chips after their use? There might be a need to verify the code in the other chips on the machine as well. Not just the main chip where the OS and application is stored. Holden _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
