[mythtv-users] OT - UEFI, Secure Boot, Fedora and nVidia drivers

[Gary Buhrmaster]

On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 4:40 PM, Ben Kamen <bkamen at benjammin.net> wrote:
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> But also, can't nVidia get its drivers signed so they can run in the kernel?

Well, not exactly.  In order to avoid the GPL restrictions, nVidia
requires each user to agree, download, and build their own "interposer"
code to load the binary blobs and interface with the kernel (since it
is not a [binary] distribution, it is not in violation of the current
letter of the GPL agreements (spirit is irrelevant)).  And since you do
not have the ability to sign, the answer is probably not.  Packagers
that are doing it for you have exactly the same issue.

That said, I am sure nVidia has their best people thinking up
workarounds (although I would guess the answer will be to disable
UEFI secure boot, which many advanced Linux users will do
since they use development drivers all the time).

Note that this also means that in the future, choosing hardware
for Linux will include the additional validation of "Can this
motherboard disable secure UEFI boot?"

Gary