It wasn't long ago that the Free Software Foundation for a second time on the topic, but recently there have been signs that a broader effort is in the works in the Linux community.

"The purpose of this email is to widen the pool of people who are playing with UEFI Secure boot," began a late last month from James Bottomley, chair of the Linux Foundation's Technical Advisory Board.

Based on Intel's Tianocore

It turns out Bottomley has created a platform Linux developers can use to get around Secure Boot--specifically, a boot system based on Intel's , which is an open source implementation of the .

The Intel Tianocore project just recently added the Secure Boot facility to its UEFI ROM images, he noted.