[coreboot] Permanent solution of the UEFI Secure Boot problem?!

[Maciej Grela]

2013/1/9 Svetoslav Trochev <svetoslav.trochev at gmail.com>:
> Hi Everyone and Happy New Year.
>
> This summer I'm planning to buy new laptop.
> Also ongoing debates related to UEFI transition and current implementation
> of  'Secure Boot' requirement imposed by Microsoft's Windows 8 certification
> got me thinking and I would like to share my idea and see how many people
> have similar thoughts. Basically boils down to create Coreboot Reference
> Hardware for development, testing and daily use of coreboot. Here is my plan
> (warning it is not very well thought through):
>
> 1. See how many people are ready to buy new hardware and are interested to
> work on coreboot advancement.

[...]

> What do you guys think? Am I completely crazy to believe that we can make
> material change in our industry?

Hi,

this seems to be exactly what these guys were doing:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FreeSoftwareLaptop
They even mention coreboot as their BIOS. Have you investigated what
is going on with this project?

-- 
Maciej Grela