On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Ricardo Chung
On Monday, June 25, 2012 11:54:57 AM M. Edward Borasky wrote:
On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 8:50 AM, Ricardo Chung
wrote: Sure not before openSUSE 12.3. The way UEFI+SecureBoot will impact other than Windows 8 operating systems will be certainly known after the next 6 months. The ARM architecture is the critical one (Windows Logo Certification specification forbid to disable SecureBoot ). Other like x86 architecture might be flexible (including a way to disable the SecureBoot option).
In the meantime, another option than Fedora+RedHat have decided is not visible shortly.
The more we know about the UEFI+SecureBoot and boot requirements process will increase our chances to propose another approach.
Canonical / Ubuntu just announced their approach. I don't remember the details, but it was different from Red Hat / Fedora's and involved replacing GRUB2 as the bootloader because the GPL wouldn't allow what the Ubuntu team proposes. Personally, I think the fewer GPL components a system has, the better, but I'm not in a position to impose that on others. ;-)
Edward,
You are right. Ubuntu is planning their own deployment on Ubuntu OEM by replacing Grub2 with "Intel's efilinux" (http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Canonical-details-Ubuntu-UEFI-Secure- Boot-plans-1624444.html) https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2012-June/035445.html
I would dare to say this is more reactive than anything else to generate the general opinion.
Regards,
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