-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 07/03/12 10:36, Nigel Verity wrote: > It's been interesting to read about Canonical's ideas for the > future of Ubuntu; in particular its use as an OS for tablets and > other mobile devices. It strikes me that some of this vision is > undermined by the implications of the "Secure Boot" functionality > being specified by Microsoft on ARM processors as a pre-requisite > to achieve "Windows 8 Compatible" status. A lot of the up-coming > tablets are going to be using ARM chips, so unless the Microsoft > requirement is modified, or manufacturers choose to ignore it, the > Canonical vision seems to be flawed. Or am I missing something? >
There's a big difference between Canonical talking to device manufacturers to get a 'certified' hardware platform for Ubuntu, and community people picking random tablets to put Ubuntu on. For the first instance I don't see secure boot being an issue. For the second it may or may not, but there's plenty of other issues too. It's unlikely we'd be able to spin out a "one size fits all" iso image which works on any ARM tablet in the same way that we do for x86/x86_64 based computers. ARM devices generally need some hardware enablement work done, so it's not as simple as "Insert disk and run installer". If Canonical find a hardware partner to work with then we can do the enablement with them for those specific devices. You can see that we've done that before by noting how many different ARM ISO images we have including ac100, mx5, omap4 etc. http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/11.10/release/ Cheers, - -- Alan Pope Engineering Manager Canonical - Product Strategy +44 (0) 7973 620 164 alan.p...@canonical.com http://ubuntu.com/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJPV0qGAAoJEMx6UFtfvV4wF2oIAIl6nBevGnkG5WTopYLhoqYZ +sQ/LtQ+gG9Ln+ylYBicH0YrTTDDpz8QUzKh0CCLvERHZEsZOU2o9twRPM/1n5jL jZUZ3H/dn5WD8A7M1m4hHs6zozJB4GsShzcIieLIGCv393TBN8ix0o4zKCq/aJJi zTZf0PTi9hYRvj5bVULAC9UYdPj36kBTS2WTizkBLSVxW7RPlm7Kpd/YjQtZ7rBN JsaoxLCmEndkmKWYXicQ+DX2duYuzazEJqz+X9qB1vjU1i1ZnCgf2ceb9poHMK4b 9C6j6hsnLDD1qTGkHW07WWguK9XKxp2O5FP6lytAB8fuoZG/0SoegdYnGV+l530= =Bqc+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
