Re: [RFD] linux-firmware key arrangement for firmware signing

[David Howells]

Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > Relying on UEFI presents three problems, though: (1) the system admin has to
> > manually, as far as I'm aware, inform the BIOS; (2) the UEFI storage is
> > limited; and (3) not all systems have UEFI.
> 
> Yeah, that doesn't really sound like a good solution. Not all users are
> sys admins.

Yeah.  We don't really want to recommend they go meddling lest they brick
their machine by triggering a bug in their BIOS.  Not that there *are* any
buggy BIOSes of course;-)

David
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