On Wed, 2011-06-29 at 13:36 +0200, Björn Persson wrote: > Adam Williamson wrote: > > On Tue, 2011-06-28 at 10:01 -0400, Adam Jackson wrote: > > > On Tue, 2011-06-28 at 09:59 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > > > > Le Lun 27 juin 2011 15:12, Miloslav Trmač a écrit : > > > > > Placing trust in the manufacturer of the hardware puts the user in no > > > > > worse position than they were before. > > > > > > > > I don't call placing absolute vetting power in bios writer hands "no > > > > worse position". I don't thing anyone can point to a "good" bios on > > > > real world hardware. > > > > > > I appreciate the disdain - no, really, trust me, I do - but you should > > > realize that SMM means you already may have no control over the machine. > > > > Well, the fact that BIOSes aren't open source means that anyway. > > That's not impossible to change though. I have never dared to try Coreboot > myself, for fear of destroying my motherboard, but in principle it's possible > to replace the BIOS in most current computers with a free implementation. It's > looking like the TPM makes it impossible to replace Sinit with a free clone. "Most current computers"? The support list - http://www.coreboot.org/Supported_Motherboards - is tiny, and doesn't include any even vaguely recent Intel chipset that I can see. And it includes a grand total of four laptops, two of which I've never heard of. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
