Re: New memory tester application potentially to replace memtest86+: PCMemTest

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On Mon, Feb 8, 2021 at 5:19 PM Kevin Kofler via devel
<devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Chris Murphy wrote:
> > Yeah I definitely do not want Fedora in a position where anyone has to
> > give users advice like "you need to disable UEFI Secure Boot" in order
> > to do X. Be it testing RAM or anything else.
>
> Why would anyone want to NOT disable Restricted Boot? (Assuming the firmware
> is not broken and lets them disable it, as it is supposed to.)

If you want to take the risk of acquiring a rootkit that can
permanently take control of your firmware, that is up to you. It
should not be a distribution recommendation to subject users to such
bad advice.


-- 
Chris Murphy
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