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Not here 2 Mar 2012 | 05:43 am
For anyone still trying to read this, I am now here.
Supporting UEFI secure boot on Linux: the details 24 Sep 2011 | 03:48 am
(Update January 18th 2012 - you probably want to read this for details on why the technical details described below are not the difficult bit of the problem) An obvious question is why Linux doesn't ...
UEFI secure booting (part 2) 24 Sep 2011 | 01:01 am
Microsoft have responded to suggestions that Windows 8 may make it difficult to boot alternative operating systems. What's interesting is that at no point do they contradict anything I've said. As thi...
UEFI secure booting 21 Sep 2011 | 06:23 am
Since there are probably going to be some questions about this in the near future: The UEFI secure boot protocol is part of recent UEFI specification releases. It permits one or more signing keys to ...
The Android/GPL situation 2 Sep 2011 | 09:39 am
There was another upsurge in discussion of Android GPL issues last month, triggered by couple of posts by Edward Naughton, followed by another by Florian Mueller. The central thrust is that section 4 ...
Untitled 30 Jul 2011 | 04:51 am
I've turned off the automatic crossposting, so all future updates will only be here.
Booting with EFI 15 Jul 2011 | 05:14 am
One of the ways in which EFI is *actually* better than BIOS is its native support for multiple boot choices. All EFI systems should have an EFI system partition which holds the OS bootloaders. Collisi...
IPv6 routers 9 Jun 2011 | 01:42 pm
I have a WRT-54G. I've had it for some years. It's run a bunch of different firmware variants over that time, but they've all had something in common. There's no way to configure IPv6 without editing ...
A use for EFI 8 Jun 2011 | 07:54 am
Anyone who's been following anything I've written lately may be under the impression that I dislike EFI. They'd be entirely correct. It's an awful thing and I've lost far too much of my life to it. It...
Rebooting 1 Jun 2011 | 06:45 am
You'd think it'd be easy to reboot a PC, wouldn't you? But then you'd also think that it'd be straightforward to convince people that at least making some effort to be nice to each other would be a mu...
