On 12/02/14 01:31, John W. Linville wrote:
On Mon, Dec 01, 2014 at 04:27:25PM -0600, Eric Schultz wrote:
All,
I work for the prpl Foundation, an open source foundation organized by
a number of companies, most related to MIPS. One project we work with
externally is the OpenWrt project. Recently one of our members
mentioned a new FCC requirement (described in FCC publication 594280)
which requires wifi hardware devices to restrict modifications in ways
that were not previously required. Some of the suggestions the company
had internally for complying would be to use features like Secure Boot
and other types of DRM-like mechanisms to prevent routers from being
modified. This obviously would be quite bad for the OpenWrt community
(and the embedded Linux community as a whole) so we agreed as a group
to try to provide hardware companies with a way of complying without
harming the community.
I'm looking to find individuals (and other companies!) interested in
working with myself and the foundation, companies, the OpenWrt
community and eventually regulators to provide guidance to hardware
companies on how to best comply with these rules. If you're interested
in getting involved or just would like to know more, please get in
touch with me. We want to make sure that routers and related embedded
Linux hardware is hackable and we could use all the help we could get.
Thanks and I look forward to working with you,
Eric
Eric,
Obviously, I would be interested in hearing more. I suspect there
are others on the list that will be interested as well...
I think so too. Just not sure what "Linux hardware is hackable" really
means here. Well, I guess I mean to say: tell me more. I guess with
hardware companies you mean OEMs here, right?
Regards,
Arend
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