[H-source-users] h-node and UEFI Secure Boot, how should we move?

[mattij . lammi]

Hi, this is lammi87.

I added the following post to the issue 138 
(http://www.h-node.org/issues/view/en/138/1/32f22fa8e682728adae98b4d4fc3fbd8) 
about UEFI on h-node:

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Thanks for your messages Antonio and Michal. It seems this issue is more 
complicated than I thought.
> BIOS, UEFI, boot firmware and other names refer to what is exactly the same thing for our 
> purposes. Maybe call it "boot >firmware" and explain that BIOS and UEFI 
> implementations are boot firmware?

I agree. Maybe we should change the "does it have free BIOS?" entry to:

> does it have free boot firmware?                yes
>                                                                         no
>                                                                         
> not-specified

and add a link to the wiki/help page where we explane what we mean by "boot firmware", 
that is BIOS, UEFI, Coreboot, etc. This way, we can keep the devices' pages simple. They would 
become a mess if we would add all the entries I first suggested and even more if we would add 
similar entries to all other non-free "boot firmware".

This issue is a bit complicated so we absolutely need to improve our wiki/help pages 
about this matter. We must specify really clearly and easy to understand way which 
"boot firmware" is free and which is not (UEFI vs. UEFI with Restricted Boot).

What do you think?

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