On Thu, 26 Jun 2008, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Deepak Saxena wrote: > | I agree with Paul that we need to have a solution to these > | cases iff we want to support running arbitrary software and > | hw combinations on the XO. The other option is to limit the > | scope of the system to a very specific set of sw and hw, > | treating the XO as embedded education appliance instead of > | a general-purpose laptop device, which I don't think > | we want to do. > > That is _precisely_ what I want to do. > > OLPC's goal is to distribute XOs to the poorest children in the world. > That means that in the category of electronics, the great majority will > have the XO and nothing else. Peripherals are a rarity, an edge case. > > There is a planned design to allow the user to grant extra privileges to > different Activities, but those privileges will probably never extend to > loading arbitrary kernel modules. I have no problem declaring that anyone > who is modifying the kernel is a "developer", and should therefore get a > devkey and call modprobe themselves. > > - --Ben Yes. oo--JS. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iEYEARECAAYFAkhjw/AACgkQUJT6e6HFtqQlSgCfbDujhumR3cmtT/MpEH8qQidC > cYEAn0atipCHDcuYjAIvS/E6IpxD0Ktb > =WJse > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > Security mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/security > > _______________________________________________ Security mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/security
