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2009-10-12 , 13:32
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Originally Posted by fanoush View Post
Yeah I'm aftraid of this too. I was hoping N900 and up will be more open and more hackable on the lower level (kernel, bootloader). This indeed looks like signed bootloader loading signed kernel with disabled (or signed?) kernel modules. So most probably no extra kernel drivers or otherwise you would be able to load anything into kernel and disable DRM in one way or another.
However, there are two paths. If the kernel's signature is incorrect, and the device is not sim-locked, the unsigned kernel will be booted with DRM features disabled.

Those who are interested in hardware hackery for the end-user may have more problems, but most end-users don't need functionality provided by new kernel modules or kernels. And, if they do, and they require access to some DRM content, they'll need to use bootmenu.
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