Intel IDF - EFI to replace BIOS

[Bari Ari]

Looks like Intel is predicting EFI to replace BIOS soon from the 
presentation at the IDF this week.

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2130826,00.html
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/20/189208
http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=1791&p=2
http://www.intel.com/technology/efi/index.htm

Bari

Bari Ari  writes:
> Looks like Intel is predicting EFI to replace BIOS soon from the
> presentation at the IDF this week.

Ah, the dreamers.

I have not seen anything redeemable about EFI yet. 
And you can't boot anything old with it.

Of a long list of things EFI gets wrong, probably the most
telling is even Intel cannot write a correct driver.

Much to much of EFI comes out of the backwards compatibility
is bad mentality of IA64.

Replacing that  something that works with else I expect
to be a hard sell.

Eric

[Ronald G. Minnich]

EFI sucks so bad, too.

We need to get linuxbios more widely used or we'll be stuck with that EFI 
ugliness.

ron