On Tuesday 12 February 2008, ron minnich wrote:
On Feb 11, 2008 6:25 PM, Corey Osgood corey.osgood@gmail.com wrote:
Some (most?) hardware vendors say they only support MS Windows, the same logic could be applied. An open-source firmware provides a lot more assurance that the BIOS is free of malicious code.
The arguments against open source bios are almost exactly the arguments I heard years ago against open source OS.
FUD.
True. But I also recall to never attribute to malovelence which can be explained by stupidity. That person must have been trained to answer this.
For example, a laptop battery could explode if incorrect power management algorithms were applied.
And besides the FAA problem, conclusively batteries cannot be charged when the main CPU is off -- cool design. Again, remember you are communicating with level 1 support.
coreboot has loaded tianocore.
Any pointers? Any hints?
As someone wrote (or quoted) on this list: EFI is an operating system still looking for a boot loader.
Torsten