On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 01:47:34AM -0400, Seth Johnson wrote:
>On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 1:16 AM, Seth Johnson
<seth.p.johnson(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm sorry, I really don't understand what you're suggesting here.
It's
> not possible to simply replace a system's firmware with another
> implementation. You could chainboot from one UEFI implementation into
> another, but if the first implements secure boot then you'd have the
> same set of bootstrapping problems as you would with just booting an OS.
See the fuller thread, reconstructed in nested fashion above. A free
software UEFI would be on its own hardware.
The features you wanted in a free software UEFI are present in existing
UEFI implementations, so I'm not sure what you're asking for.
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