[haiku-development] Re: Should Haiku, Inc. sign the FSF SecureBoot petition?

  • From: "Alex-P. Natsios" <apnatsios@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2012 14:05:28 +0200

been long since i checked/read anything on this matter but i do
remember reading somewhere that

"Part of certification for windows 8 ARM devices is the inability to
turn off secure-boot or run anything unsigned there"
which i suppose means that you either buy a key from microsoft or you
are locked out!

(then again i am no lawyer nor have updated knowledge for this matter.
so consider this just a mention :) )

On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 10:54 AM, François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 29/12/2012 07:52, Alexander von Gluck wrote:
>> I noticed several folks from Haiku have signed the FSF
>> SecureBoot petition.
>>
>> We could sign the petition as an organization and get
>> some nice advertisement of our support while helping
>> a good cause.
>>
>> If you aren't aware of SecureBoot... Windows 8 systems
>> require PC manufactures to use a locked down boot process
>> (part of UEFI) to "secure" the system. The side effect is
>> that you have to have a "blessed" key from Microsoft to
>> boot anything other then Windows 8. (This is all part of
>> the "Windows 8 Certification" for hardware)
>>
>> As these are commodity x86 machines, this impacts all
>> non-Microsoft operating systems including Haiku.
>
> Actually, while it "should" not be mandatory on x86, it definitely will
> be required on ARM devices for the windows 8 certification program.
>
>> Anyone against Haiku, Inc. signing this?
>>
>> http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/secure-boot-vs-restricted-boot/statement/
>>
>
> Certainly not me.
>
> +42.
>
>
> François.
>



-- 
Regards,

Alex-P. Natsios
(a.k.a Drakevr)

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