Stefan Reinauer schrieb: > * Ronald G Minnich <[email protected]> [060505 15:31]: > >>>One second... Could we do bios based transparent hard disk encryption >>>this way? That would be kind of cool ;-)) >>> >>I am told that this type of thing might go into EFI. You don't get >>direct access to your disk. Looking at the EFI docs, it seems you could >>do it ... you no longer get access to raw hardware. OW! > > With Vanderpool and Pacifica this should be fairly easy. > > The fact that stuff like this is possible (maybe even with SMI) is not > the scary part. The scary part is we might never get control over any > piece of hardware again.
But LinuxBIOS would suddenly become a lot more attractive if it was the only way to get real access to the hardware. Unless somebody decides to run that scary software below LinuxBIOS. I believe with BIOS-embedded-in- chipset like the Xbox has we really might be stuck. Regards, Carl-Daniel -- linuxbios mailing list [email protected] http://www.openbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
