On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 4:23 PM, Segher Boessenkool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Nothing specific to EFI here, as far as I can see. All of this is > true as well for traditional BIOS, Open Firmware, and even coreboot. > well, I agree with you mostly. EFI, uniquely, is capable of fetching and loading a new copy of itself autonomously, as well as installing it with no user intervention -- which I've seen happen on a Mac. Scares me to death. Most importantly, while there is the possibility of providing a verifiable supply chain with coreboot and other open source BIOSes, no such possibilty exitsts with EFI, as it is a proprietary operating system. It will never be possible, barring a huge change on the part of the EFI community, to build such an open BIOS. ron -- coreboot mailing list [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
