Intel To Release Next-Gen BIOS Code Under CPL

An anonymous reader writes "Intel said today that it plans to release the 'Foundation code' of its next-generation firmware technology -- a successor to the PC BIOS -- under the Common Public License (CPL), an open source license, later this year. More than 20 years old, the BIOS (Basic Input-Output System) is the oldest software technology in PC platforms. Intel says its firmware Foundation code, a result of a project codenamed Tiano, 'provides that the successor to the BIOS will be based on up-to-date software technology.' The Foundation code is designed to be extended with new features and services, such as improved platform manageability, serviceability, and administrative interfaces which are too complex to implement in the old BIOS environment, according to Intel."

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I RTA.....

[zogger]

... and it's exactly what I thought too, at least a variation of it, and they opened it so anyone could implement as much of it as they wanted to. So I'll call it a cousin of DRM.

Mirror , just in case

[mirror_dude]

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