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Swedes Show Intel Sandy Bridge Running BIOS-Successor UEFI

Posted by timothy on from the oofi-is-swedish-anyhow-isn't-it? dept.

An anonymous reader writes "SweClockers.com has gotten it hands on a Intel Sandy Bridge motherboard running Unified Extensible Firmware Interface, the long awaited successor of age-old BIOS. Among the differences is a significantly more user-friendly interface, the ability to boot from drives larger than 2 TB and faster boot times. Check it out, on video, in Swedish." Here's an Google's translation of the article.

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  1. Drivers larger than 2TB! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    That's pretty big for a driver. It would take me months to write something that big.

    1. Re:Drivers larger than 2TB! by cashman73 · · Score: 4, Funny

      That's ironic. I heard that's about the size of the new kernel for Windows 8!

    2. Re:Drivers larger than 2TB! by TheRaven64 · · Score: 5, Funny

      Clearly you have never used an HP printer.

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    3. Re:Drivers larger than 2TB! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      We don't call them printers, they are Ink sale Enablement Devices, or IEDs.

    4. Re:Drivers larger than 2TB! by Jeremi · · Score: 5, Funny

      Yes,almost the entire 2GB of the windows kernel is a graphics driver.

      That's correct -- Microsoft optimizes their video driver by pre-rendering every possible graphic in advance, and including all of them as resources in the driver binary. That way they can display anything via a single lookup into the displays-table.

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  2. Drivers? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    > boot from drivers larger than 2 TB

    Just what we need, more and bigger drivers!

  3. drivers larger than 2 TB by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    When will the code bloat stop? What are they doing, including a look-up table for every memory address?

    1. Re:drivers larger than 2 TB by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      > Um, you do realize that as computers get more and more powerful and having more and more memory that video and music files are going to get big, right?

      And how much disk space do you suppose it takes to store a high fidelity digitally sampled 7 channel sound that goes, "Whoooooooooosh!"?

  4. Kerma vhureeng by MightyMartian · · Score: 4, Funny

    Uneeffied Ixtenseeble-a Furmvere-a Interffece-a nemed heur tu tudey's beseec inpoot ooootpoot system thet elloos intrunce-a in iernest veet zee loonch ooff Intel Sundy Breedge-a et zee ind. Bork bork bork! UEFI kun leeknes feed itt nedbuntet oopereteefsystem sum öferkummer många ef de-a begränsneenger sum feenns i det uråldreega BIOS. UEFI is leeke-a a sceled-doon oopereteeng system vheech oofercumes muny ooff zee leemiteshuns ooff zee ege-a-oold BIOS.

    Noo in UEFI

    * Ebeelity tu mudern grepheecel interffece-a
    * Uppstert från legreengsenheter större-a än 2 TB Buut frum sturege-a defeeces lerger thun 2 TB
    * Snebbere-a uppstertsteeder Fester buut teemes
    * Flexeebel uppstert från oobegränsed mängd källur Flexeeble-a buut frum un unleemited fereeety ooff suoorces
    * CPOo-ooberuende-a erkeetektoor CPOo ercheetectoore-a independent
    * Foollt utbyggd prugremmeeljö Foolly fledged sufftvere-a infurunment
    * Stöd för dreefrootiner Sooppurt fur dreefers
    * Stöd för 32/64-beeters meennesedressering Sooppurt fur 32/64 beet memury eddresseeng
    * Efuncered säkerhet inklooseefe-a kryptereeng Edfunced secooreety incloodeeng incrypshun

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    1. Re:Kerma vhureeng by Nerdfest · · Score: 5, Funny

      ... but how easy is it to recover when it gets bork, bork, borked?

  5. Microsoft by cashman73 · · Score: 2, Funny

    I heard Microsoft is already working on a competitor to UEFI. It's called UFIA. ;-)

    1. Re:Microsoft by hedwards · · Score: 2, Funny

      Really? I would've thought it would be FUIA.

  6. Re:UEFI has been around for years. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Of course, you don't get to play with it, but then why would you need to?

    The only boards that are worth having are the ones that validate my opinion of myself as an ubergeek. My entire self worth springs from my ability to adjust pointless hardware parameters through a poorly designed interface cobbled together by Korean sweatshop developers.

    I will never buy a motherboard that doesn't allow me to set the Clock Phase Skew to 0.25, or and the Memory Overdrive Voltage to 1.79. Those are the correct values. If your Apple motherboard doesn't have a byzantine boot menu that allows you to set them, then you're being kept in a walled garden. If you allow Steve Jobs to be an authoritarian control freak who prevents you from setting your memory timing to 4-3-3-2, then why don't you just an iPad and a Wii, and the rest of us will use the real computers.

    Now if you excuse me, I need to change the fuel injectors in my car. It's getting near winter, and as the air density increases I need to change the fuel air mixture. It's important that you stay on top of this. Only sheep leave it the same year round.

  7. Drivers? What about the 9-irons? by zooblethorpe · · Score: 3, Funny

    And just how far can someone hit a ball with a 2TB driver? Are they PGA-approved, or will the club kick me out if they find me using one? Hmm...

    Cheers,

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