Red Hat Will Pay Microsoft To Get Past UEFI Restrictions

Alan Cox alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Tue Jun 5 11:29:33 UTC 2012


On Tue, 05 Jun 2012 06:47:24 -0400
Sam Varshavchik <mrsam at courier-mta.com> wrote:

> Thibault NĂ©lis writes:
> 
> > The main problem is that the UEFI spec doesn't describe a standard UI to do  
> > this AFAIK, so every hardware vendor might implement it in a different way.
> 
> Don't worry about. Microsoft will make sure that the OEM knows exactly how  
> to implement the ability to install keys for other operating systems.

They seem quite averse to that actually.

UEFI itself cannot really tackle it because UI is out of the UEFI remit
(and as I understand it always has been)


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