Intel IDF - EFI to replace BIOS

Eric W. Biederman ebiederman at lnxi.com
Fri Feb 21 02:15:01 CET 2003


Bari Ari <bari at onelabs.com> 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




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