> Well, are you sure "UEFI disable button" will turn off ALL of UEFI > functions? > With that virtualization, both hardware bugs and attacks against > hypervisors are real world cases. So don't be naive. > > Trust me, I'll try hard to avoid virtualization and Fedora@UEFI on my > firewalls, no matter what they did to circumvent UEFI issues. > > Heck, I simply have no extra 5 years to spend on that hide-and-seek > games.
For 15+ years I read these regular Cassandra calls that this and that "innovation" will kill free operating systems on commodity hardware, remember Adaptec SCSI controllers, 3D video cards, I2O, trusted computing and whatever the "feature of the day" is called. For some reason or another these apocalypses never materialize, increasingly due to the fact that free operating systems are a major factor in the server world, and a manufacturer trying to exclude them will lose business both in the short run and long term. There are few threats to server manufacturers worse than "Ok, I'll hang on to my old hardware then until it either falls apart or until this is resolved". Rudi
