On 01-Oct-11 13:40, Matt S wrote:
Has anyone been following Microsoft's recent attempts to muscle OEMs into
using the secureboot feature of UEFI or is this just a load of media hot air?
Are there any plans for OpenBSD to support UEFI?
Thanks
First off, the UEFI boot will *not* prevent other OS's from booting, it
will only pop up a message saying that the boot process was not secure,
just like how you can run unsigned code and it will only pop up a box
stating as much. It would be impossible to prevent an 'insecure' OS
from booting since that would prevent you from booting a newer version
of the Windows Installer. Ideally UEFI would post a warning stating
that the OS signature is not on the list and allow you to add it.
OpenBSD already runs on UEFI/EFI systems (The Macintosh platforms and
others) so if the boot loader doesn't currently support UEFI, it
wouldn't take long to do.
