Bitfrost and dual-boot

[Morgan Collett]

On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 7:48 PM, Albert Cahalan <acahalan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Jameson "Chema" Quinn writes:
>
>> Actually, the goals are more limited. Say you have dual-boot;
>> OS 1 has bitfrost, OS 2 does not. Things OS 2 should not do:
>>
>> 1. Read private files from OS 1.
> ...
>> 2. By writing to OS 1's file system,
>
> I do believe that, practically speaking, all of this is moot.
> Windows uses both SD card storage and the NAND flash storage.
>
> (NAND storage being what you'd hoped to protect)
>
> The most you could protect would be the firmware itself, but
> it is silly to imagine that a laptop would have OpenFirmware
> when the NAND storage doesn't even have Linux.

Windows does not need to use the NAND flash with the dual boot setup.

>From Monday's OLPC News mail on the community-news list
(http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/community-news/2008-May/000128.html):

> Mitch Bradley:
> * Reports that dual boot  is working.  You can plug in an SD card to
> boot Windows, then remove it to boot back to Linux.

This of course using OFW2 which is not yet released.

Regards
Morgan