Shuttleworth: ACPI, firmware and your security
Shuttleworth: ACPI, firmware and your security
Posted Mar 17, 2014 17:00 UTC (Mon) by exadon (guest, #5324)In reply to: Shuttleworth: ACPI, firmware and your security by mgross
Parent article: Shuttleworth: ACPI, firmware and your security
What sucks is the missing transparency, you never know what's really going on. So the idea is to reduce the BIOS/ACPI/UEFI part to a minimum, that would be kernel loading and hardware discovery. Everything else should be handled by in-kernel drivers.