Bari Ari wrote:
Intel has a BIOS survey at: http://developer.intel.com/sites/developer/
Take the BIOS/Firmware Survey. Give us your opinions on BIOS/Firmware http://poll.onsurvey.net/istu/61030C1/dnc.asp
Here's a way to send a message to Intel about what BIOS developers think of EFI.
I love advertisements concealed as polls:
Are you aware the industry is in the midst of moving from legacy BIOS to EFI/UEFI?
and there's no selections for linuxbios. What a joke.
It gets better: " EFI/UEFI:The EFI specification defines a new model for the interface between operating systems and platform firmware. The interface consists of data tables that contain platform-related information, plus boot and runtime service calls that are available to the operating system and its loader. Together, these provide a standard environment for booting an operating system and running pre-boot applications."
No mention of DRM hooks. hmm.
oh yeah, it's so great that we have to conceal an ad as a poll. What a winner.
and... "Which company is leading the industry in terms of EFI/UEFI…"
There's no "I really don't care" button.
Betcha they want to pick intel.
This is great. These are "questions" EFI/UEFI creates efficiency EFI/UEFI is flexible EFI/UEFI is scalable EFI/UEFI saves money EFI/UEFI saves time
Here's a dead giveaway: Which CPU are you currently using? AMD Intel® Celeron Intel® Celeron D Intel® Celeron M Intel® Core™ Duo Processors Intel® Itanium® 2 Intel® Pentium D Intel® Pentium M Intel® Xeon® VIA
Since there's only one type of AMD cpu, right? And you only get *one* choice.
And, still better: " Would you like to be contacted to participate in further Intel related research activities? Yes - I would like to be contacted to participate in further Intel related research activities. "
Wow, these guys are smooth, eh? I would never have guessed that this was a fake poll.
To be honest, I doubt very much what Intel cares about what people think of efi, but go ahead and take the poll -- you never know.
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