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BIOS' Days Are Numbered

Posted by timothy on from the all-days-are-numbered dept.

Ninja Master Gara writes "While this article shows Phoenix expanding the uses of the bios, ZDNet UK reports Intel is looking to get rid of it altogether, to be replaced with the Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) as announced at the Intel Developer Forum. EFI promises a considerable amount of flexibility to system control and startup, legacy support, and programability. And it gets rid of text mode only start up too."

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  1. It's about time. by entrylevel · · Score: 4, Funny

    I mean, even my 1992 Toyota uses EFI . Way to keep up with the times, Intel!

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  2. Re:Paladium by Snoopy77 · · Score: 4, Funny
    Does Phoenix will have (forced to?) have the paladium's required functions?

    I tried to make sense of this sentence but my internal parser core dumped. Luckily my newly installed Phoenix Core Management Environment diagnosed the problem as a gramatically challenged sentence.

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  3. Linux BIOS by yerricde · · Score: 4, Funny

    3 second Linux-rom boots on PCs by replacing the BIOS ROM ... I can't seem to find them via google, though

    Have you tried just putting Linux and BIOS into a Google query? First two results: The LinuxBIOS Home Page and Slashdot | Linux BIOS.

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