Fedora ARM and SecureBoot

[Adam Williamson]

On Fri, 2012-06-08 at 13:07 -0400, Gerry Reno wrote:
> 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

The question of whether anyone's going to buy them is, however,
unsettled.
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