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From: Tom Rymes <tom@rymes.net>
To: development@lists.ipfire.org
Subject: Re: Can/should we prospectively drop various kernel capabilities related to firmware access?
Date: Sun, 05 Jun 2022 21:52:45 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1AE71C68-8777-4AE1-AC6F-8F8F2784B7E3@rymes.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bfa5c6de-ffce-ce66-d252-f10a2c3ac743@ipfire.org>

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> On Jun 5, 2022, at 11:58 AM, Peter Müller <peter.mueller(a)ipfire.org> wrote:

[snip]

> Following this principle, I would like to see things such as the multimedia
> stack we currently support in IPFire 2.x go in IPFire 3.x.

[snip]

Peter,

This should be an interesting discussion, but first I want to confirm that I am reading the above sentence correctly. Specifically, “go in” could be interpreted two different ways:

1.) be added to
2.) be removed from

I assume it’s the latter, based on the context, but I figured it was worth asking just to be certain.

As for your main question, I understand the impulse for users to want to have a single machine to host files, serve as a firewall, be a hypervisor, and so on, but I tend to agree with your assessment that the firewall should be as dedicated a machine as possible.

As for the firmware issue, is it not possible to boot from another medium to accomplish this goal?

Tom

      reply	other threads:[~2022-06-06  1:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-06-05 15:58 Peter Müller
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