<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 2:22 AM, Brandon Holtsclaw <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:me@brandonholtsclaw.com" target="_blank">me@brandonholtsclaw.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="im"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 5:16 PM, Jonathan Riddell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jr@jriddell.org" target="_blank">jr@jriddell.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">Ooh that looks interesting, what makes you think it uses UEFI. What do you think I mean by UEFI laptop? It's the new firmware to replace BIOS with evil DRM.</blockquote>
</div><br></div>I think you may be mixing "UEFI" and "Secure boot" up, All Mac's and many Intel laptops and server boards now use UEFI instead of a traditional BIOS, actually nearly 100% produced past 2010. <span style="line-height:19.1875px;font-size:13px;font-family:sans-serif">The UEFI 2.2 specification adds a protocol known as Secure boot that does the nasty DRM stuff your mentioning. Laptops running UEFI 2.2+ and using Secure Boot are what your on the hunt for.</span><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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</blockquote></div><div><br></div>That's exactly what I suspected: Jonathan meant "UEFI + Secure Boot", not just plain UEFI.<div><br>According to this blogpost, the G580 does have Secure Boot:</div><div><br>
</div><div><a href="http://pensivepenguin.com/category/secure-boot-2/">http://pensivepenguin.com/category/secure-boot-2/</a><br clear="all"><div><br></div><div>And these pictures of my mom's laptop I've just taken confirm that too:</div>
<div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.elpauer.org/tmp/g580-secureboot-1.jpg">http://www.elpauer.org/tmp/g580-secureboot-1.jpg</a></div><div><a href="http://www.elpauer.org/tmp/g580-secureboot-2.jpg">http://www.elpauer.org/tmp/g580-secureboot-2.jpg</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>I'm not sure what "Platform Mode: User" or "Secure Boot Mode: Standard" mean, though.</div><div><br></div>-- <br>Pau Garcia i Quiles<br><a href="http://www.elpauer.org">http://www.elpauer.org</a><br>
(Due to my workload, I may need 10 days to answer)
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