Fedora considers deprecating legacy BIOS
Fedora considers deprecating legacy BIOS
Posted Apr 25, 2022 15:14 UTC (Mon) by khim (subscriber, #9252)In reply to: Fedora considers deprecating legacy BIOS by pizza
Parent article: Fedora considers deprecating legacy BIOS
> 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.
Sorry, but no. It's most definitely not 99.999%. I know for the fact that you had to replace ROM chips on Risc PC, Amiga (in fact you can still buy a replacement chips) and I have seen "Flash Protect" switch on lots and lots of motherboards made in XX centory.
I remember that one specifically because it was a surprise to me that they would remove it.
> BIOS is layered-hacks-on-top-of-layered-hacks built that goes all the way back to 1982.Yes, so what? It works. It's secure (more secure than the XXI century abomination). And easy to provide in virtual environment.
EFI is huge mess with the only redeeming quality: it can support >4TB SSDs. That's great, but I'm not sure all that pointless complexity is worth it.
Insecure-by-design POS which can not be protected by design — and I'm supposed to use for sake of “security”? Puhlease.
Sure, I use EFI when I have no choice, but that doesn't mean it's not POS.
> 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.So what? One doesn't need that many transistors to implement that more and today there are billions of them on any x86 CPU.
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