Fedora ARM and SecureBoot

Gerry Reno greno at verizon.net
Fri Jun 8 17:07:20 UTC 2012


On 06/08/2012 01:04 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> 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.

There is a tidal wave of these PC ARM devices coming:

http://www.itworld.com/hardware/240039/qualcomm-targets-pcs-takes-aim-intels-ultrabooks




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