laptop with no BIOS? or BIOS reflash pain

[Anton Shterenlikht]

	From bruce at cran.org.uk Thu Oct 25 09:22:33 2012


	On 25 Oct 2012, at 08:52, Anton Shterenlikht <mexas at bristol.ac.uk> wrote:

	> I'm probably missing something here.
	> ia64 uses EFI, but there's nothing
	> about checking for "non-signed" code.
	> I can boot VMS, FreeBSD, linux, etc.
	> And, by the way, firmware updates from EFI via e.g.
	> USB flash drives is trivial on ia64.
	> Perhaps what you are describing is not about the EFI
	> specification iteself, but what
	> different manufacturers add on top of it?


	It's in the latest UEFI spec - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface#Secure_boot .

	-- 
	Bruce Cran

fuck.. I'm out of touch.
So this means I might not
be able to boot freebsd at all
on future ia64 boxes..

Anton