On 01/01/2015 02:43 AM, Maurice McCarthy wrote: > On 2014-12-30 16:38, Mark - Syminet wrote: >> On Dec 29, 2014, at 5:02 PM, Eric Furman <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Linux supports the UEFI boot loader. OpenBSD does not. >> >> ...and that is all we need to know. >> >> Shame on them! Shame Shame Shame! > > Maybe my knowledge is outdated but you've got things wrong here. UEFI boot > code is binary only and > owned by Microsoft. This was decided by whatever board controls the standard. > (Standard ?!) To my > knowledge, though it is dated, only Red Hat and Ubuntu have a license from > Microsoft and therefore > have created the necessary 'shim code,' as it is called, to interface with > UEFI. > > Regards > Moss >
Opensuse as well, as of about 3 releases ago. I don't know if an actual license is involved, but you do have to get microsoft to sign some piece of code, which costs 99 bucks per trial (apparently it used to takes a few tries to get it right). The association of Microsoft and hardware manufacturers have been looking for other signing authorities but no one has stepped up yet. http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/growing-role-uefi-secure-boot-linux-distributions -- Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
