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EFI'ing And Blinding

Posted by Nik on from the NP:-Diamonds-on-the-soles-of-her-shoes dept.

In another installment of the "BSD code popping up in odd places story", Intel are promulgating the Extensible Firmware Interface, a new abstraction layer for the "operating system and platform firmware". As this PDF slideshow shows, libc in the EFI layer is from FreeBSD (page 9), as is the TCP/IP stack (page 11). Finally Intel appear to be releasing the whole thing under something very close to a BSD license (page 15). Which is nice.

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  1. Is it just me, or... by Morbid+Curiosity · · Score: 3

    ...does the phrase "Extensible Firmware Interface" sound a bit... y'know... Freudian?

  2. Open Firmware by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3
    Why not just use OpenFirmware ?

    It there , it's open ( more or less ) it's cross-platfrom compatible etc..

    It is used by sun , apple-ppc and motorola-ppc machines.


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