[DC LoCo] Mark Shuttleworth responds to: Any comment on the Ubuntu UEFI ruckus?

[Kevin Cole]

Any comment on the Ubuntu UEFI ruckus?

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2012-June/035387.html

Mark Shuttleworth mark at canonical.com Wed Jun 20 00:29:27 UTC 2012

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On 20/06/12 05:44, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols wrote: > Matthew Garrett
started it: > > http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/13713.html > > and it's been
"reported" on elsewhere but I wonder what you had to say > about it.

We've been working to provide an alternative to the Microsoft key, so that
the entire free software ecosystem is not dependent on Microsoft's goodwill
for access to modern PC hardware. We originally flagged the UEFI /
SecureBoot transition as a major problem for free software, we lead the
efforts to shape the specification in a more industry-friendly way, and
we're pressing OEM partners for options that will be more broadly
acceptable than Red Hat's approach.

SecureBoot retains flaws in its design that will ultimately mandate that
Microsoft's key is on every PC (because of core UEFI driver signing). That,
and the inability of SecureBoot to support multiple signatures on critical
elements means that options are limited but we continue to seek a better
result.

Mark

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