HispaLinux files complaint about UEFI

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 05:04:07PM -0400, Christopher Browne wrote:
> http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/77645.html
> 
> I suspect our own "POG" group might find it interesting to take a peek
> at this to see if there is any local applicability.  It's possible
> that there's nothing apropos to do in Canada, but I couldn't evaluate
> that one way or another.

Note that the guy from Suse is clearly confused and does not understand
things properly.

The option to disable UEFI which exist on some machines and allow legacy
boot might disappear eventually, since that is extra code (I believe
often called CSM).

The option to disable secureboot however has no reason to disappear from
UEFI, since it is just an on/off toggle on a feature.  Turning off code
is not a chunk of seperate code, it is just telling it to not be used.

So yes in a few years UEFI will be the only option, but that isn't the
same as "secureboot on" being the only option.  Legacy boot support and
secureboot are not related at all (although if secureboot is on, legacy
boot is automatically off, which makes sense).

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