Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 09:40:20 +0100 (BST) From: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> To: bruce@cran.org.uk, mexas@bristol.ac.uk Cc: freebsd@edvax.de, cpghost@cordula.ws, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: laptop with no BIOS? or BIOS reflash pain Message-ID: <201210250840.q9P8eK7v005917@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <12874F2A-8A60-4D31-B090-0B9F1E4E7806@cran.org.uk>
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From bruce@cran.org.uk Thu Oct 25 09:22:33 2012 On 25 Oct 2012, at 08:52, Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> wrote: > I'm probably missing something here. > ia64 uses EFI, but there's nothing > about checking for "non-signed" code. > I can boot VMS, FreeBSD, linux, etc. > And, by the way, firmware updates from EFI via e.g. > USB flash drives is trivial on ia64. > Perhaps what you are describing is not about the EFI > specification iteself, but what > different manufacturers add on top of it? It's in the latest UEFI spec - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface#Secure_boot . -- Bruce Cran fuck.. I'm out of touch. So this means I might not be able to boot freebsd at all on future ia64 boxes.. Anton
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