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Post #AvEvMWR8n8np4jrMmW by [email protected] |
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Looking at the reports of some systems failing to boot after the latest UEFI DB… |
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Post #AvEvMWYaLSl1RpLJNw by [email protected] |
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We ended up writing some hilariously crappy workarounds for Linux to prevent th… |
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Post #AvEvMWexxjrTlcKPKa by [email protected] |
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I can't remember how I figured this out, but the affected machines would tr… |
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Post #AvEvMWlLa0xw5PJVHE by [email protected] |
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Fucking computers, man |
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Post #AvEvMWrjCI4OPCIbDs by [email protected] |
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@mjg59 Fucking UEFI. The ring -1 (or is it -42 now? does anyone even know or ca… |
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Post #AvEvMWxOrCbggmx840 by [email protected] |
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@dalias @mjg59 UEFI and ACPI solve the problem of booting the same image on a w… |
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Post #AvEwKkAwq8Wl3p09x2 by [email protected] |
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@alwayscurious @mjg59 Device tree solves that problem. UEFI and ACPI both addre… |
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Post #AvEwKkHKSPdDNbzFtg by [email protected] |
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@dalias @mjg59 Device tree would be a solution if all of the board-specific cod… |
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Post #AvEwquGYrJojcexnXM by [email protected] |
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@dalias @mjg59 If there was a way to force vendors to upstream all of their boa… |
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Post #AvEwz6ioQuGCZO5X6G by [email protected] |
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@alwayscurious @mjg59 Sorry, I wasn't clear. I don't mean it's a wa… |
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Post #AvEwz6pC3BMetB4d2u by [email protected] |
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@dalias @mjg59 I'm one of them, but look at the situation in the Arm world … |
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Post #AvExXQOrmAj3Rl7eS0 by [email protected] |
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@alwayscurious @mjg59 The only reason it "works" on x86 is that every… |
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Post #AvExXQUtPlXvkRwSqO by [email protected] |
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@dalias @mjg59 the root cause of all of this is that hardware vendors don't… |
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Post #AvExeBdZ3wRfggDo24 by [email protected] |
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@alwayscurious @dalias device tree fundamentally doesn't solve the "I … |
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Post #AvExeBjwgDY80TCtyi by [email protected] |
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@mjg59 @alwayscurious It does if your thermal sensor driver is independent and … |
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Post #AvExeBpcL85QI3rQoq by [email protected] |
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@dalias @mjg59 the install image from last year still would not have the driver… |
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Post #AvExkbAb2rl4c5jI8W by [email protected] |
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@alwayscurious @mjg59 This is largely the fault of Linux being a monolithic mes… |
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Post #AvExkbGcgSZwumY6Wu by [email protected] |
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@dalias @mjg59 to solve that, you would need:User expectations that they must u… |
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Post #AvExt5bNmdizJUJ6um by [email protected] |
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@alwayscurious @mjg59 The root cause is that they don't properly document h… |
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Post #AvExt5h3RYGHb4xdku by [email protected] |
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@dalias @mjg59 what about documenting it in a machine-readable form that can be… |
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Post #AvExyZalhzFtm2dQA4 by [email protected] |
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@alwayscurious @mjg59 You don't need the "install image". You set… |
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Post #AvExyZgnLa4m4jSEYS by [email protected] |
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@dalias @mjg59 That doesn't work if the storage is not removable, and even … |
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Post #AvEy3kAdny5Y1xsaVE by [email protected] |
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@dalias @alwayscurious @mjg59 yeah we've had enough ACPI problems in recent… |
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Post #AvEy3kGfRYuQKehOtc by [email protected] |
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@dalias @alwayscurious @mjg59 ACPI was a big barrier to Linux compatibility bac… |
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Post #AvEy3kMh59jIdLWDI0 by [email protected] |
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@dalias @alwayscurious @mjg59 then everyone basically got their shit together a… |
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Post #AvEy3kSiikYAw2L1gO by [email protected] |
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@dalias @alwayscurious @mjg59 ... but just last month we ran into a problem whe… |
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Post #AvEy3kYONf5TDczYWW by [email protected] |
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@dalias @alwayscurious @mjg59 sorry, "at war" is overly dramatic and … |
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Post #AvEy3kdi3tLBU7TnoO by [email protected] |
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@dalias @alwayscurious @mjg59 and, like... yeah. you have a good point. this la… |
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Post #AvEy3kjNinsTli8KeW by [email protected] |
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@dalias @alwayscurious @mjg59 oh, yes, and at no point did manufacturers actual… |
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Post #AvEy3kplL4yw5V7QbA by [email protected] |
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@ireneista @dalias @mjg59 A law requiring hardware to have documentation that i… |
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Post #AvEy3uBiYotL6CSaZM by [email protected] |
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@mjg59 retooting this one alone out of context, because its a sentiment we can … |
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Post #AvEyFtrvZb8JaGvI12 by [email protected] |
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@alwayscurious @mjg59 Theoretically that would be lovely. But a sufficiently ex… |
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Post #AvEyFtxxDBxBsxk6PQ by [email protected] |
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@dalias @mjg59 did you know that power management nowadays involves hard-realti… |
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Post #AvF1DKPSjp08tQ4e7E by [email protected] |
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@alwayscurious @mjg59 That's good, it means it should operate independently… |
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Post #AvF1DKVUNPp1C6tSVc by [email protected] |
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@dalias @mjg59 Nah, that code should be open source and must be trusted. See P… |
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Post #AvF3zAWF0wqO1fBUpM by [email protected] |
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@alwayscurious @mjg59 What attacks do you have in mind if it has no communicati… |
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Post #AvF3zAccdDwqLSAam0 by [email protected] |
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@dalias @mjg59 Fault injection, stealing crypto secrets via power analysis, may… |
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@ireneista @dalias @alwayscurious @mjg59 when I started seeing ACPI errors agai… |
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Post #AvF48FHUg6ZXOxcAVM by [email protected] |
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@amy @mjg59 @dalias @alwayscurious yeah there's some new spec we've for… |
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Post #AvF48FOaFkF9kwvpYW by [email protected] |
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@ireneista @mjg59 @dalias @alwayscuriousInteresting. I agree that seems .. bad.… |
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Post #AvF48FUFuemS2XaMOe by [email protected] |
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@amy @mjg59 @dalias @alwayscurious oh, wow, fascinating. we remember when that … |
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Post #AvF48FadWvsuMKZSLI by [email protected] |
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@amy @mjg59 @dalias @alwayscurious there was never really a satisfying solution… |
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Post #AvF48FgJBqQCdvDzBQ by [email protected] |
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@amy @mjg59 @dalias @alwayscurious (from what we can tell it really is true tha… |
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Post #AvF48FmKpRF4wc2nZo by [email protected] |
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@amy @mjg59 @dalias @alwayscurious we wouldn't necessarily object to offloa… |
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Post #AvF48Ft4QOd7HVCB4i by [email protected] |
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@ireneista @mjg59 @dalias @alwayscurious yes - a standard interface to allow ma… |
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Post #AvF48Fz63zRzaC0zT6 by [email protected] |
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@amy @mjg59 @dalias @alwayscurious they have near-zero commercial incentive to … |
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Post #AvF48G57haGrsspnrU by [email protected] |
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@ireneista @amy @mjg59 @dalias and apparently lots to not make it happen, judgi… |
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Post #AvGAGUaCSqiO3hdjPc by [email protected] |
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@mjg59 and theyr users man, who use the same password in multiple places, get o… |
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Post #AvGRtQlUI8jqjS4YjI by [email protected] |
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@alwayscurious @mjg59 I claim it's far weaker than a cpu backdoor because y… |
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Post #AvGRtQrruPqJ3F3efw by [email protected] |
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@dalias @mjg59 Ah, that makes sense. Also, it doesn't interfere with OS sc… |
