[coreboot] My last note today on EFI :-)

2009-09-25 Thread ron minnich
"The Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) Shell is designed for programmers who are writing automation process software for computer-based equipment. Traditionally this software was based on various DOS family operating systems that were popular during the 1980s. While the processes may var

Re: [coreboot] My last note today on EFI :-)

2009-09-26 Thread Peter Stuge
ron minnich wrote: > "The Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) Shell .. > Yep, it's really an operating system now. This is all quite > unbelievable ... Does the prompt say "ok" ? ;) //Peter -- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/corebo

Re: [coreboot] My last note today on EFI :-)

2009-09-27 Thread Stefan Reinauer
On Sep 27, 2009, at 3:26, Peter Stuge wrote: ron minnich wrote: "The Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) Shell .. Yep, it's really an operating system now. This is all quite unbelievable ... Does the prompt say "ok" ? ;) //Peter I thought it said "bash #" after booting forever

Re: [coreboot] My last note today on EFI :-)

2009-09-27 Thread ron minnich
During my talk at linuxcon I asked how many people there had ever seen an EFI shell prompt. Only one person raised their hand. They said they liked the EFI shell. They were an EFI developer There's a saying in the English world, I am sure in many other language: "A face only its mother could

Re: [coreboot] My last note today on EFI :-)

2009-09-27 Thread David Hendricks
>From http://www.intel.com/intelpress/sum_eshl.htm : "*The UEFI Shell requires no platform-level customization. It requires no drivers beyond those included in the shipping system. This means as the UEFI Shell is used it becomes less and less likely to be the culprit of bugs introduced as a part of

Re: [coreboot] My last note today on EFI :-)

2009-09-27 Thread ron minnich
On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 12:59 PM, David Hendricks wrote: > H, so the UEFI shell is useful because it is remains stable when > everything underneath it gets switched out for every new piece of hardware > it runs on? Gee, that only sounds like every useful OS and shell I've ever > heard of. How