More Power To The Firmware

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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Ya, shure by YellowElf · 2004-06-17 03:37 · Score: 3, Funny

We don't need no stinkin' software, firmware will do it for us.

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Re:hm by IamGarageGuy+2 · 2004-06-17 03:50 · Score: 4, Funny

Now, now - that's enough of the negative thoughts. I think you should go to the M$ retraining centre for re-education right now.

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Intel versus Planet Earth by Alan+Cox · 2004-06-17 04:16 · Score: 4, Funny

I found the assertion that 64bit PC's don't use the BIOS rather amusing. Evidently bits of Intel still haven't managed to bring themselves to admit the existance of Athlon64 just yet.
NO ROM BASIC by telemonster · 2004-06-17 09:46 · Score: 2, Funny

I vote they put GW Basic back into the BIOS ROM.

Or maybe useful utilities like Sun and other workstation vendors have.

Or maybe more than 15 FUCKING IRQS! Like Macs have.

Is it me, or is everyone else just better all around? The only thing going for PC's is the junk is so cheap.

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