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Welcome YA free BIOS projectWelcome YA free BIOS projectPosted Jun 2, 2004 16:44 UTC (Wed) by aaron (subscriber, #282)Parent article: Intel to open source EFI firmware code ...to join LinuxBios (which has been working for years) and OpenBIOS (almost there after years of work). I was disppointed with EFI when I worked with it on IA64 boxen. It operated like a lame and defective MS-DOS commandline, and required a specific partition format and a specially-labeled FAT partition from which to load the kernel or second-stage bootloader. Heck, for the versions I used, if you wanted it to try one boot device, fail, then try another, you're screwed. It was a real letdown after having worked with OpenFirmware, with its hardware abstraction and FORTH extensibility. Embedded GRUB, anyone? Oh, well, beaujolais to Intel for opensourcing it.
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Welcome YA free BIOS project Posted Jun 2, 2004 19:55 UTC (Wed) by mmarq (guest, #2332) [Link] I belive thats the all "Bull" in this issue we could discuss, the reasons behind this move of the openly declared nº1 enemy of the Linux/FOSS movement...... perhaps this EFI project was so Microsoft centered,... and being so..., so fundamentaly broken, that Microsoft and Intel decided to experiment with a real open source method to see if it can be fixed... ... and that shift is remarkable from any way you look at it, more even so because is such a fundamental "piece of code"...if it can't boot you can't even debugg... ... i dont trust Microsoft, and my "felling" is that nobody should, but if they start to push it heavly with Intel, then we cant bet that every motherboard manufactor is going to have it... so how safe is to "participate" and "focus" in it ?... Linux on EFI, how is going to be ?... Simple fair questions that tryes to focus on the "Bull", instead of the "waving tail" of tagging conspiracys.
Welcome YA free BIOS project Posted Jun 2, 2004 22:10 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] i dont trust MicrosoftBut this is Intel.
Welcome YA free BIOS project Posted Jun 3, 2004 9:41 UTC (Thu) by XERC (guest, #14626) [Link] .., the Micro$oft's strategic alliance partner.Not to mention, Intel is a CLOSED hardware provider.
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