On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 09:38:12AM -0700, ron minnich wrote:
It's interesting as it is an Intel chipset.
Folks have known how to make Linux into an EFI-replacement for several years. I have heard that Linux can easily replace EFI, and is loaded after PEI. PEI has most of the really secret sauce anyway. I wonder if this is what asus is doing?
I guess there is demand for this, I bet there could be way more demand for Linux in FLASH than for EFI, if more people knew that companies can put Linux in FLASH in place of EFI.
Open source continues to push proprietary, closed solutions out of its way.
Nice.
Do you have any prediction on when EFI is going to (attempt to) hit the consumer market? I assume it will be when the Vista transition has finished, and either after or simultaneously with the win64 transition [1].
[1] which I have my doubts wether it'll happen at all: http://catb.org/~esr/writings/world-domination/world-domination-201.html