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The Lounge What is on Your Mind? Linux Desktop vs Windows 8 Post 302559324 by fpmurphy on Monday 26th of September 2011 07:44:15 PM

09-26-2011

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This issue has been publicly known about in the Linux world since at least May 2011. In fact Jake Edge wrote a long article about it in the June 15th issue of LWN. Moreover, Red Hat participated in the UEFI 2.3.1 specification. If they are now just waking up and realized what they signed off in this version of the specification then somebody in Red Hat badly missed the ball.

All Microsoft is saying is that if a PC vendor wants ship systems with Windows 8 pre-installed they must have secure boot enabled by default, that firmware not allow programmatic control of secure boot (to prevent malware from disabling security policies in firmware), and that PC vendor prevent unauthorized attempts at updating firmware that could compromise system integrity. That is all goodness from a security point of view.

Low end PCs will probably end up without a means to add keys. That is simply the nature of low end low margin manufacturing. High end server-type systems will almost certainly have the right tools to add the appropriate public KEKs (Key Exchange Key) into the platform firmware. See Section 27.5 of UEFI 2.3.1 for all the gory details.

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tk_gethwnd

HWND(3TK)						       Tk Library Procedures							 HWND(3TK)

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

NAME

       Tk_GetHWND, Tk_AttachHWND - manage interactione between the Windows handle and an X window

SYNOPSIS

       #include <tkPlatDecls.h>

       HWND
       Tk_GetHWND(window)

       Window
       Tk_AttachHWND(tkwin, hwnd)

ARGUMENTS

       Window	    window	       (in)	 X token for window.

       Tk_Window    tkwin	       (in)	 Tk window for window.

       HWND	    hwnd	       (in)	 Windows HWND for window.
_________________________________________________________________

DESCRIPTION

       Tk_GetHWND returns the Windows HWND identifier for X Windows window given by window.

       Tk_AttachHWND binds the Windows HWND identifier to the specified Tk_Window given by tkwin. It returns an X Windows window that encapsulates
       the HWND.

KEYWORDS

       identifier, window

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +--------------------+-----------------+
       |  ATTRIBUTE TYPE    | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
       +--------------------+-----------------+
       |Availability	    | SUNWTk	      |
       +--------------------+-----------------+
       |Interface Stability | Uncommitted     |
       +--------------------+-----------------+
NOTES

       Source for Tk is available on http://opensolaris.org.

Tk									8.0								 HWND(3TK)

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