Re: TPM support status ?

[Michael Gorven]

On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 10:27:59PM +0200, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
> > > Since we're going to say no anyway, there's no reason to do it 
> > > later.  The
> > > longer we wait the stronger they'll be, and the more difficult for us to
> > > reject their unreasonable demands.
> >
> > Because there are valid use cases that aren't about restricting the owner's
> > freedom.
> Yes but the cost is too high. And few people who really need high
> security can afford coreboot motherboard.

Your coreboot solution isn't really feasible. The flashed BIOS would 
contain a checksum of the bootloader, which means that you can't change 
the bootloader once the BIOS is flashed. Since the bootloader contains a 
checksum of the kernel, you can't change the kernel either.

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