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I'd wait to hear if this board has Linux support. It might have a locked bootloader.

• smoldesu 4y ago
  Specs seem to list UEFI Secure Boot, which has been unlockable on all of Microsoft's Surface devices and previous ARM outings. Shipping this with a locked bootloader would be one hell of a breach from tradition (and probably undermine it's usefulness as a dev box anyways). Regardless, the internal SOC is the same as the new ARM Thinkpad which also shipped with an unlocked bootloader. Pretty much everything suggests that this will ship unlocked.
  • monocasa 4y ago
    > Specs seem to list UEFI Secure Boot, which has been unlockable on all of Microsoft's Surface devices and previous ARM outings That doesn't quite seem accurate. For one example: https://www.theregister.com/2016/07/15/windows_fix_closes_rt_unlock_loophole/ https://www.theregister.com/2016/07/15/windows_fix_closes_rt...
    • my123 4y ago
      For all ARM64 Windows devices, UEFI Secure Boot is end-user configurable. And yes that includes Surface Pro X, Pro 9 arm and this devkit.