[Bradford] Laptop security

[John Robert Hudson]

On Monday 16 Nov 2015 12:35:28 Matt Fleming wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Nov, at 10:29:16PM, John Robert Hudson wrote:
> > Hi Alice
> > 
> > When Matt gave his talk on mixed mode UEFI in May, I mentioned that I had
> > not been able to use UEFI on my Toshiba and it appears that there may be
> > a form of Windows only UEFI which isn't accessible to efibootmgr. So that
> > may be the root problem as Lenovo say that 'features may not work with
> > other OS.'
> 
> I'm not aware of any "Windows only UEFI", and given that UEFI defines
> a standard method by which the OS can interact with the firmware, if
> such a thing did exist, you couldn't call it UEFI!
> 
> I've just switched jobs so should have more free time on Monday
> evenings now. I can pop along to the next meeting and take a look at
> your laptop if you're still interested in getting Linux working wit
> UEFI?
Hi Matt

I agree that there shouldn't be "Windows only UEFI" but, since efibootmgr can 
read but is unable to edit the entries on my Toshiba, it appears that at least 
some implementations do not follow the standard!

John
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