[Arm-netbook] Verifying firmware

Xavi Drudis Ferran xdrudis at tinet.cat
Wed Aug 24 21:07:44 BST 2016


El Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 08:58:06PM +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton deia:
> 
>  which is why i contacted TI to ask them if there was a way to blow
> the e-fuses so that DRM could ****NEVER**** be enabled.  they were
> incredibly surprised: i was literally the first person ever to ask
> them.
> 
>  oh... the answer was "no".
>

Thinking more about it I'm more interested in the docs... 
What does that efuse do ? One would imagine that while it isn't fused you 
can install either software or keys to validate software that you choose ? 
Then you could install some noop DRM and fuse the e-fuse ? Just to make 
sure nobody takes control and install their nasty DRM and then fuses ? 
Something similar to the Ubuntu boot loader that boots unverified kernels ?




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