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[–] 84 points 1 day ago (11 children)

Everything about secure boot is a mistake.

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  • [–] 165 points 1 day ago (10 children)

    I would disagree. The idea is great; eliminate preboot malware by trusting the whole boot stack. It has a place in computing and I would like to see it be something easier to work with.

    Pretty much everything about how it's currently implemented is a mistake, I'll agree with.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    More like who is implementing it. Take MS out of the picture and set it as an open standard.

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  • [–] 4 points 21 hours ago (1 child)

    It is open, oddly enough. It's just that nobody ships anything other than Microsoft's keys. You can add your own. It's just that it is a tedious, manual process.

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  • [–] 36 points 1 day ago (6 children)

    Microsoft has unofficial support for ext4 for their EFI partitions on their azure cloud, which in itself is a violation of their standard.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 day ago (5 children)

    UEFI doesn't forbid you from implementing additional file systems, it just requires everyone to support UEFI-FAT. iBoot for example supports booting from HFS volumes.

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  • [–] 1 point 12 hours ago (4 children)

    And who has that implementation?

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  • [–] 2 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

    iBoot is the bootloader on all Apple products.

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    You are free to implement any filesystem driver, and either load it in your custom implementation of EFI, or from an EFI image stored on a FAT partition. The EfiFs project provides many drivers under a GPL, including exFAT, Btrfs, ext2-4, NTFS, ISO9660 (cdfs), ZFS and also HFS(+).

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