On Mar 23, 2012 3:22 AM, "Kevin Kofler" <kevin.kofler@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Peter Robinson wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 2:28 PM, drago01 <drago01@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> The only ones where this is possible right now are actually x86 based
> >> tablets. Even Windows 8 wont help here as MS mandates that the
> >> devices are locked with secure boot without having an option to disable
> >> it.
> >
> > No that is definitely not the case that it is x86 only,
>
> Quite the opposite: M$ rules for "secure" boot are:
> * on x86 (or "non-ARM" in their wording) devices, it MUST be possible for
> users to disable "secure" boot,
> * on ARM devices, it MUST NOT be possible for users to disable "secure"
> boot,
> i.e. all ARM devices shipping Window$ will have restricted boot forced on
> with no option to disable it.
And at the moment there are exactly 0 devices shipping windows 8 on arm. There are no such rules for other oses such as Android, those are the devices I was referring to, I did say above that BIOS locked are a non starter already!
> Kevin Kofler
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