[OLPC-devel] Secure BIOS on the OLPC

[Richard Smith]

> board physically) where the EC wouldn't have power and the rest of the
> machine would. I'm aware of the concern, however, and if there's any
> indication from our hardware folks that we can't do this securely, I
> will revert to the original keys-pressed solution.

This can be solved pretty easy by sticking a latch on that signal and
once you have clocked the latch the signal is de-asserted until the
reset line is yanked.

So even if you can't do it on the current rev the mod is pretty trival
for the next round.

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Richard A. Smith