On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 7:48 PM, Albert Cahalan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jameson "Chema" Quinn writes: > >> Actually, the goals are more limited. Say you have dual-boot; >> OS 1 has bitfrost, OS 2 does not. Things OS 2 should not do: >> >> 1. Read private files from OS 1. > ... >> 2. By writing to OS 1's file system, > > I do believe that, practically speaking, all of this is moot. > Windows uses both SD card storage and the NAND flash storage. > > (NAND storage being what you'd hoped to protect) > > The most you could protect would be the firmware itself, but > it is silly to imagine that a laptop would have OpenFirmware > when the NAND storage doesn't even have Linux.
Windows does not need to use the NAND flash with the dual boot setup. >From Monday's OLPC News mail on the community-news list (http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/community-news/2008-May/000128.html): > Mitch Bradley: > * Reports that dual boot is working. You can plug in an SD card to > boot Windows, then remove it to boot back to Linux. This of course using OFW2 which is not yet released. Regards Morgan _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
