Fedora considers deprecating legacy BIOS

> I still remember MS-6309.
>Year 2000 edition had a nice, simple jumper which made ROM read-only. Yes, certain change in configuration cause complaints at boot, but it was a simple matter of changing its position for one boot and return it back after that.

Meanwhile, the other 99.999% of motherboards lacked that feature, including, as you mentioned, later versions of that same motherboard. One data point does not a generalization make.

BIOS is layered-hacks-on-top-of-layered-hacks built that goes all the way back to 1982. [1] It's long past time to shoot it in the head. And it's also why, to this day, our bleeding edge Ryzen processors still pretend to be a 44-year-old 16-bit i8086 when powering up.

[1] As in when Compaq released PC clones using a clean-room reverse-engineered BIOS.