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These are reasonable wants, but without technical justification they will be ignored for the same reason they were when UEFI was standardized. Also, at least o
by willis936 6y ago
These are reasonable wants, but without technical justification they will be ignored for the same reason they were when UEFI was standardized.
Also, at least one of them is a customer complaint: “I don’t want to have to upgrade it”. You don’t have to. Your machine will always work fine and a continually updated OS will apply whatever patches are necessary, except if your BIOS is compromised.
- inetknght 6y ago> Also, at least one of them is a customer complaint: “I don’t want to have to upgrade it”. You don’t have to. Your machine will always work fine and a continually updated OS will apply whatever patches are necessary, except if your BIOS is compromised. "I don't want to have to upgrade my BIOS" shouldn't translate to the OS automatically applying updates to the BIOS. It should translate to the BIOS not needing an update in the first place.
- billpg 6y agoJust to clarify, I want to not even be able to upgrade the BIOS. The machine can't tell if I'm actually sitting there trying to push new code into the ROM or if some malware is doing it, so I want the machine to refuse any request. Okay, maybe a hardware switch on the motherboard wired to the write-protect pin, but that begs the question of why that write-protect pin is needed. (Another comment expresses why which I'll respond to separately.)
- userbinator 6y agoOkay, maybe a hardware switch on the motherboard wired to the write-protect pin, but that begs the question of why that write-protect pin is needed. For a period in the late 90s and early 2000s, there was a physical write-protect. That was also a period when BIOSes came with less bugs, so there was far less need to change it; but when the need did arise, it was there.