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bug #46032: TPM support

Submitted by:  Mateus Baptista <madruga>
Submitted on:  Wed 23 Sep 2015 04:32:32 AM UTC  
 
Category: BootingSeverity: Major
Priority: 5 - NormalItem Group: Feature Request
Status: Wont FixPrivacy: Public
Assigned to: NoneOriginator Name: 
Open/Closed: ClosedRelease: 
Release: 2.02~beta1Reproducibility: None
Planned Release: None

Fri 17 Feb 2017 07:06:37 PM UTC, comment #2:

Which specific GNU policy would this violate?

jbash aka John Bashinski <jbash>
Wed 07 Oct 2015 09:21:17 PM UTC, comment #1:

Against GNU policies.

Vladimir Serbinenko <phcoder>
Project Administrator
Wed 23 Sep 2015 04:32:32 AM UTC, original submission:

Hello everyone,

Some time ago many feature requests about TPM support were closed because FSF considered them dangerous[1,2,3].

In 2015 RMS declared TPM are not dangerous[4] ("...the “Trusted Platform Modules” available for PCs are not dangerous, and there is no reason not to include one in a computer or support it in system software."), so I think it's eligible now to ask this feature again.

It was actually implemented in a GRUB fork[5] so the effort of implementing this feature is just a merge of code already written.

Thanks

[1] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-grub/2012-07/msg00017.html
[2] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2009-02/msg00217.html
[3] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2009-08/msg00407.html
[4] http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/can-you-trust.en.html
[5] http://sourceforge.net/projects/trustedgrub/

Mateus Baptista <madruga>

 

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