On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 2:22 AM, Brandon Holtsclaw <[email protected]>wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 5:16 PM, Jonathan Riddell <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Ooh that looks interesting, what makes you think it uses UEFI. What do >> you think I mean by UEFI laptop? It's the new firmware to replace BIOS >> with evil DRM. > > > I think you may be mixing "UEFI" and "Secure boot" up, All Mac's and many > Intel laptops and server boards now use UEFI instead of a traditional BIOS, > actually nearly 100% produced past 2010. The UEFI 2.2 specification adds > a protocol known as Secure boot that does the nasty DRM stuff your > mentioning. Laptops running UEFI 2.2+ and using Secure Boot are what your > on the hunt for. > That's exactly what I suspected: Jonathan meant "UEFI + Secure Boot", not just plain UEFI. According to this blogpost, the G580 does have Secure Boot: http://pensivepenguin.com/category/secure-boot-2/ And these pictures of my mom's laptop I've just taken confirm that too: http://www.elpauer.org/tmp/g580-secureboot-1.jpg http://www.elpauer.org/tmp/g580-secureboot-2.jpg I'm not sure what "Platform Mode: User" or "Secure Boot Mode: Standard" mean, though. -- Pau Garcia i Quiles http://www.elpauer.org (Due to my workload, I may need 10 days to answer)
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