Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

Bruce Cran bruce at cran.org.uk
Tue Jun 5 19:45:33 UTC 2012


On 05/06/2012 20:12, Gökşin Akdeniz wrote:
> That's restriction is only for ARM devices which have a label that says
> "Desgined for Windows8". In other words those devices can not boot
> another os except Windows 8 due to secure boot option enabled by
> default.

Not quite. As I understand it, on ARM secure boot will be enabled by 
default and users won't have any option of disabling it or adding their 
own keys. On x86 secure boot will be enabled by default too, but with 
the option of disabling it or adding custom keys.

-- 
Bruce Cran


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