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LSS: Secure Boot

LSS: Secure Boot

Posted Sep 13, 2012 17:11 UTC (Thu) by linuxjacques (subscriber, #45768)
Parent article: LSS: Secure Boot

"... hibernation will need to be disabled. That's fine, "because it doesn't really work in Linux anyway", he said."

This feature doesn't work (in all cases), so it's OK to remove it.

Beautiful logic.


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LSS: Secure Boot

Posted Sep 13, 2012 21:04 UTC (Thu) by mjg59 (subscriber, #23239) [Link]

It means it's a lower priority. The aim is obviously to find a solution that doesn't reduce the functionality, but given the choice between supporting a pressing and immediate use-case and supporting something that's so poorly tested that it was causing filesystem corruption on anything with Intel graphics for several releases, the choice is fairly obvious.

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Posted Sep 14, 2012 10:17 UTC (Fri) by willnewton (subscriber, #68395) [Link]

The key words in that sentence are "Intel graphics". Hibernation works perfectly well for me and seems a valuable feature.

LSS: Secure Boot

Posted Sep 16, 2012 15:42 UTC (Sun) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]

Hmm…fun. I've been hibernating my netbook which has Intel graphics and have not seen/noticed any failures. I'll be doing a fsck next boot :) .

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