Re: Intel says the PC BIOS will be replaced with 'EFI'
They're just switching to openfirmware.. Apple and Sun have been using it for years. it works, it's easy, it's open, it's customizable. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Greater NH Linux User Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 21, 2003 11:13 AM Subject: Intel says the PC BIOS will be replaced with 'EFI' http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2130826,00.html Comments? -- Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] | The opinions expressed in this message are those of the author and do | | not represent the views or policy of any other person or organization. | | All information is provided without warranty of any kind. | ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Intel says the PC BIOS will be replaced with 'EFI'
While it's true that the proprietary architecture vendors such as Sun, DEC, et al, had a large system service capability mentality, I would think that, at least for the Itanium2-based systems, be they desktop or server, it would make sense to expand/enhance the BIOS capabilities ANYWAY, if for no other reason than to leverage economies-of-scale. Bayard ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Intel says the PC BIOS will be replaced with 'EFI'
On Fri, 21 Feb 2003, Bayard R. Coolidge wrote: While it's true that the proprietary architecture vendors such as Sun, DEC, et al, had a large system service capability mentality, I would think that, at least for the Itanium2-based systems, be they desktop or server, it would make sense to expand/enhance the BIOS capabilities ANYWAY, if for no other reason than to leverage economies-of-scale. Lets not forget that this BIOS replacement also makes it more graphical, user friendly, and customizeable. While the big manufacturers may not want to add the lights out management style stuff, they'll almost certainly want a nice BIOS GUI with a DELL watermark. Think of compaq's little partition. If that stayed past a drive upgrade, it would have been decent and probably would have caught on. Ben -- Thursday, December 10, 1840: I discover a strange track in the snow and learn that some migrating otter has made across from the river to the wood, by my yard and the smith=92s shop, in the silence of the night. I cannot but smile at my own wealth, when I am thus reminded that every chink and cranny of nature is full to overflowing, that each instant is crowded full of great events. --Henry David Thoreau ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Intel says the PC BIOS will be replaced with 'EFI'
On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 11:13:09AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2130826,00.html I honestly don't think this is huge news. Intel's use of EFI on Itanium architecture has been going on for some time. EFI has it's good point and bad; ideally, open firmware is a good thing to have, though the EFI has some funky implementation details, such as a FAT32 partition with a funky size calculation (1% of disk, 100 MB to 1 GB, I think, but it's been a while since I looked at this). Overall, much better than BIOS, although I've always thought of it as a competitor to the firmware of Sun, DEC, HP, IBM servers, not PC BIOS. Of course, the big news would be if Intel was making a concerted effort to get rid of PC BIOS and use EFI on IA-32 machines. Such a task would probably take a strong push from Intel. However, that's not the vibe that a got from the article. Instead, the article seemed to indicate that IA-32 implementations had only been prototyped, and Intel's comment that they aren't in the BIOS business seemed to indicate to be that they may not been pushing for this too hard -- after all, if IA-32 PC's are stuck with BIOS, that's one more differentiator for IPF, right? BTW, Intel has infomration on EFI at http://www.intel.com/technology/efi/. -- Bob Bell [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Who is General Failure and why is he reading my hard disk? -- Anonymous ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
