[Arm-netbook] Microsoft confirms UEFI fears, locks down ARM devices

[Gordan Bobic]

On 01/14/2012 03:10 PM, Bari Ari wrote:
> Maybe it's time to start making ARM soc's?
>
> http://www.softwarefreedom.org/blog/2012/jan/12/microsoft-confirms-UEFI-fears-locks-down-ARM/
>
> http://linux.slashdot.org/story/12/01/14/0236244/microsoft-taking-aggressive-steps-against-linux-on-arm\
>
>
> "Microsoft has updated their WHQL certification requirements for Windows
> 8, and placed specific restrictions on ARM platforms that will make it
> impossible to install non-Microsoft operating systems on ARM devices,
> and make it impossible to turn off or customize such security. Choice
> quotes from the certification include from page 116, section 20: 'On an
> ARM system, it is forbidden to enable Custom Mode. Only Standard Mode
> may be enabled' — which prevents users from customizing their security,
> and in section 21: 'Disabling Secure MUST NOT be possible on ARM
> systems' to prevent you from booting any other OSes."

I rather expect that all it'll take to disable all that is a working JTAG.

Gordan