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How do companies "lock" hardware to certain OSes? What

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How do companies "lock" hardware to certain OSes? What stops someone from writing a replacement OS for the iPhone, for example?
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>>59128373
Disgusting udders.
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>>59128373
They refuse to release whitepapers for the hardware, so the only way to get the hardware working is generic drivers with shit performance or years of reverse engineering, at the end of which period the device is no longer viable for use.
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>>59128373
Reimu acute
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>>59128373
>What stops someone
the lock
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>>59128373
Lack of GPU drivers. The rest is pretty straightforward to reverse engineer.
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Oversized tits are disgusting.
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>>59128373
Bootloader checks digital signature of kernel, if it doesn't match it refuses to boot.
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>>59128373
Secureboot.
Kernel signature.
Boot manager/bootloader lock.
BIOS lock/limited.
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>>59128379
>>59129912
>9 posts
>8 IPs
>two posts about how large breasts are disgusting
really fires my neurons desu
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Bootloaders that only run signed OS.
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>>59128373
LEWD
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>>59128373
You aren't very smart, are you
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>>59128914
If you don't know shit about what you are taking just don't talk.
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>>59128379
>>59129912
How much of a faggot do you have to be to hate big tits? If anything they're a bit on the small side.
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oh man I FUKCING love anime every time I see an anime picture on /g/ I'm like MMMMMHHHHGG YES FUCK it looks so clean and good and just like oh man fucking anime pictures that's good shit
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>>59128373
Those tits don't have to be that large at all.
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>>59132314
Theyre still nice...
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>>59128373
signed code.

it's not that complicated.
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