Sorry for the misinformation: the non-free firmware was needed to get Wifi to work. (It was a Debian netinstall, so I guess my mind conflated that with booting.)
Znoteer wrote:
On Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 07:42:47PM -0400, Stewart Russell via talk wrote:
If the file /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/MSDM exists (it's read-only to root), there's probably a key embedded in there you can pull out with strings
I don't seem to have that file, and I'm not surprised. Under what circumstances might one have that file on a linux system?
Is it perhaps a license for installed firmware? I have that file on an HP/Compaq laptop, in a fresh Debian install to a brand-new SSD. We had to install some non-free firmware to get the laptop to boot. It was all done in a spirit of hasty improvisation, so I don't remember which firmware it was. Way back when, the laptop was delivered with Windows 10, which I blew away on the original HD. The license number for that is on a sticker on the bottom, and it's a different license number from the one in the MSDM file.
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