Fedora 18 and UEFI

[suvayu ali]

Hi Rahul,

On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 2:44 PM, Rahul Sundaram <metherid at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Can I freely choose to use proprietary (or for that matter alternative
>> free) drivers for my hardware from whatever source I prefer?
>
> On x86 systems, the ability to disable secure boot is mandated by
> Microsoft and needed to debug Microsoft drivers and since all the
> hardware manufacturers want to comply to this specification, you can be
> rest assured they will provide this functionality and once you disable
> secure boot (instructions for this will likely be in a Fedora wiki
> page), then you are free to load up any custom kernel/kernel module of
> your choice.  Also Fedora will provide the tools that the project itself
> uses within the official repository (ie) will be free and open source
> and instructions to use your own key in custom mode.

Thanks a lot for the clarification.

-- 
Suvayu

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