On Thu, 14 Dec 2006, Jan Beulich wrote: > >with the patch it boots perfectly without any command-line args. > > Are you getting the 'Firmware space is locked read-only' message then? yep... so let me ask a naive question... don't we want the firmware locked read-only because that protects the bios from viruses? honestly i'm naive in this area of pc hardware, but i'm kind of confused why we'd want unlocked firmware just so we can detect a RNG. -dean - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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