[Jolla Tablet] Will it have an open boot loader ?

answered 2014-12-03 02:22:39 +0200

m4r0v3r
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updated 2014-12-03 02:24:26 +0200

in the irc meeting Stskeeps said that it would be open. what am more curious about is the drivers

actually what do you mean by open? as in able to boot other operating systems? or open sourced? the first one will be available, unsure about second, but if its a 64bit operating system bootloaders like Grub can be used

answered 2014-12-03 02:32:18 +0200

keithzg
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updated 2014-12-03 02:34:03 +0200

Related to m4r0v3r's answer, the (understandably busy!) Stskeeps said recently in regards to the bootloader:

[Sunday, November 30, 2014] [02:27:22] [Stskeeps] btw, as a heads up, i'm hoping to post a blog post where we try to get a conversation going on bootloader/security/etc on tablet.. hope many of you will participate so we end up with a great solution

[Sunday, November 30, 2014] [02:27:54] [Stskeeps] i want to be able to forget my tablet in a bar, but still be able to hack it with my own OS stuff.. :P

That all sounds quite reasonable to me; I can't claim to understand much of the technical questions that are involved in developing a solution that provides such a scenario, but on paper that's arguably the way to do it (ie. hackable but also securable).