[Arm-netbook] Verifying firmware

[Stefan Monnier]

> I'm not advocating for secure boot.  In fact I advocate against any
> form of secure boot that is not under the user control at all times.

Yes, we agree violently ;-)

> Yes.  I only said that because SD cards have a switch and uSD cards don't
> so I thought there is some mechanical difficulty in puting a switch in
> a card so small.

Oh, you're right, I forgot that µSD cards don't have the little
advisory switch.  So we'd need an SD card instead.  I can live with it.

> You could put a switch in a uSD card, but that would make the whole
> uSD card read only, so you would need something else for storage
> space.  If you can get simply a part readonly that'd be much better
> and self contained.

Sure, you can always ask for more, but since the A20 comes with plenty
of MMC ports, you can have a whole read-only SD card plus a separate
read-write µSD card.


        Stefan "whose Orange Pi mini has 2 µSD slots one of which holds
                a card with nothing else than U-boot"