Stewart Smith of IBM has a new blog post about using POWER8-based systems. This one is very interesting, it talks about OpenPOWER use of Secure and Trusted Boot:
Fast Reset, Trusted Boot and the security of /sbin/reboot:
In OpenPOWER land, we’ve been doing some work on Secure and Trusted Boot ( http://open-power.github.io/skiboot/doc/stb.html ) while at the same time doing some work on what we call fast-reset ( https://github.com/open-power/skiboot/commit/0279d8951ead549fdebce93130a2f6c673081862 ) (or fast-reboot, depending on exactly what mood someone was in at any particular time…. we should start being a bit more consistent).[…]
Firmware Security 