[Wylug-discuss] UEFI

[Ray Powell]

UEFI is now new. It has been used by Apple since they moved to Intel architecture.  Also I believe that on PCs support for disks bigger than 2TB is only in UEFI or at least requires a hybrid BIOS. In other respects UEFI is an improvement over the traditional BIOS. It can actually run in 32 (or 64?)  bit mode. The issue is whether secure boot should be turned on by default.

Ray Powell

-----Original Message-----
From: wylug-discuss-bounces at wylug.org.uk [mailto:wylug-discuss-bounces at wylug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Andrew Lindley
Sent: 24 October 2011 11:32
To: Türker Sezer
Cc: wylug-discuss at wylug.org.uk
Subject: Re: [Wylug-discuss] UEFI

Apropos is Professor Ross Anderson's blog article which states that the UEFI thing is 'clearly illegal' linking a page on EU competition law [1]. UEFI is clearly constraint of the Linux kernel development methodology.  Any awareness raising should involve promoting the idea of a pooled complaint by GNU/Linux businesses and developers to the Competition Commissioners.  

Andrew / Leny

[1] http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2011/09/20/trusted-computing-2-0/

On Mon, 24 Oct 2011 00:22:31 +0100
Türker Sezer <turkersezer at tsdesign.info> wrote:
> Short explanation about UEFI; with secure start option of UEFI -which 
> is new bios software which will become widespread next year- boot, 
> binary and device drivers which doesn't contain valid signature 
> -authorized organization is not definite- will be blocked at hardware 
> level. This feature must be on as default to get "Windows 8 
> compatible" badge. So most of producers started to use UEFI in their 
> products.
> 
> This means -even it can be disabled from bios settings- that we can't 
> install Linux until we find this option in bios and disable it in new 
> computers. And any other O/S except Windows 8 can't be installed on 
> some laptops which doesn't contain detailed bios features.
> 
> For this reason, i suggest you attend the petition of FSF:
> http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/secure-boot-vs-restricted-boot
> 
> And i want to ask what we can do to create awareness?

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