Re: [LinuxBIOS] xp booting

[Stefan Reinauer]

* Ronald G Minnich  [060407 16:38]:
> > > "Macs use an ultra-modern industry standard technology called EFI to
> > > handle booting. Sadly, Windows XP, and even the upcoming Vista, are
> > > stuck in the 1980s with old-fashioned BIOS. But with Boot Camp, the
> > > Mac can operate smoothly in both centuries."
>
> I read that too. Pretty funny, once you start looking at EFI code ...

The really ultra-modern innovative part - and the only one that was not
coped by IEEE 1275-1994 (yeah last century) - was the intellectual
property closed source thingie.

The good thing is nobody except Intel and Apple are supporting EFI
actively yet.

Stefan