Fedora ARM and SecureBoot

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Fri Jun 8 17:04:08 UTC 2012


On Fri, 2012-06-08 at 14:07 +0200, Mario Torre wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-06-07 at 14:34 -0500, Chris Adams wrote:
> 
> > that would not allow custom kernel and such.  Don't support the locked
> > down platform; the answer to "Fedora on ARM" is "don't buy a Win8 ARM
> > system and expect to run Fedora".
> 
> One should be very, very careful with sentences like this one.
> 
> With more and more machines turning to ARM, simply dismiss it as a
> "don't buy a Win8 ARM" *may* possibly work right now, but it will turn
> against us in the future.

That is only assuming that Windows on ARM is successful, of which so far
there's been precious little indication.
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