[LinuxBIOS] Intel Asks for Opinions on EFI, BIOS/Firmware in a Survey

[Bari Ari]

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.

[LinuxBIOS] Intel Asks for Opinions on EFI, BIOS/Firmware in a Survey

[Ronald G Minnich]

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.

ron

[Peter Stuge]

On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 09:21:30PM -0600, Ronald G Minnich wrote:
> 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.

I guess they don't consider people using LinuxBIOS to be in the
industry. (read: market)
> 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.

I think all they will get from the "poll" is how they can improve EFI
as a product. I wouldn't have bothered if I hadn't gotten to play
with a friend's iPod nano the other day. :)

//Peter