Comment by lrvick

Comment by lrvick 2 days ago

Yes, and that is a serious security problem because the only way to get trusted PCR values for TPM2 gated secure boot and full disk decryption applications, is with open source full source bootstrapped firmware.

Coreboot is the only option, but it has a hard requirement on Ada because that is what they wrote their intel graphics stack in.

It is a real mess.

utopiah 2 days ago

Interesting, any link I could read to understand a bit more the situation?

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lrvick a day ago

Here is some background on the Haskell situation: https://www.joachim-breitner.de/blog/802-More_thoughts_on_a_...
Ada has had even less progress and I am not aware of any writeups.
TL;DR: Ada and Haskell need to have compilers implemented a language that has a full source bootstrap path such as C, Go, or Rust that implement just enough features to compile the official compilers.

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- elbear 8 hours ago
  
  Just curious, are C, Go and Rust and the only viabile languages for an implementation?
  
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