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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Robert Nicholson <robert.nicholson@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Does the linux kernel contain support for ATA Security feature set?
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 10:29:49 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090417102949.6c2b663a@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CC1C24F4-B448-4453-BA6C-EF436231B267@gmail.com>

> So does the Linux kernel support the ATA security set then? or does

It supports pass through of ATA commands: See man hdparm

> it, like OSX have protective measures to stop abuse of those features.

The kernel doesn't but your BIOS or in some distributions early boot
scripts may well issue a security freeze.

Alan

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-04-17  9:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-16 23:49 Robert Nicholson
2009-04-17  0:46 ` Matthew Garrett
2009-04-17  0:50   ` Robert Nicholson
2009-04-17  0:55     ` Matthew Garrett
2009-04-19 19:32     ` Robert Nicholson
2009-04-17  9:29 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2009-04-17 16:37   ` Krzysztof Halasa

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