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The Linux Foundation's UEFI secure boot system

The Linux Foundation's UEFI secure boot system

Posted Oct 11, 2012 14:57 UTC (Thu) by mjg59 (subscriber, #23239)
In reply to: The Linux Foundation's UEFI secure boot system by jake
Parent article: The Linux Foundation's UEFI secure boot system

We're pretty reluctant to just add the "Press y to continue" code because that's something Microsoft explicitly forbid from being present in the system firmware, and there's a pretty strong incentive to be conservative. Adding the functionality would be trivial, it's really a policy thing.


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