More Power To The Firmware · Slashdot Mirror

Posted by michael on Thursday June 17, 2004 @03:31AM from the press-f2-to-enter-setup dept.

An anonymous reader writes "In More Power To The Firmware Amit Singh talks about technical details of EFI, the next-gen BIOS replacement standard Intel, Microsoft and others are pushing. This is a very informative piece where he talks of issues with legacy BIOS, how it affects those who develop in the firmware environment and how EFI plans to solve these problems. EFI usage examples are included, including a programming example. He contrasts EFI with Open Firmware as well. IMO the second half of the article is even more interesting, where sample FORTH code is provided for displaying a window/mouse pointer GUI inside the Apple/Mac firmware! And of course, there's code for a new 'Towers of Hanoi' animation using the Mac firmware (remember Hanoimania?). Aspiring Mac Firmware Hackers could also check out the suggested projects ;-)"

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hm by Further82 · 2004-06-17 03:42 · Score: 0, Flamebait

I'm sure it won't be long until this thread degrades into "Bill Gates is taking over my BIOS and I won't be able to install Linux anymore!!! M$ is EVIL!!!11 Linux is t3h 1337!!11".
However I'm sure by the time I actully press submit it will have done just that, but then again that is basicly the theme of every other thread on /.