Towards a Smarter BIOS

[Steve]

Bored of the BIOS? Me too! Things are going to be changing soon, luckily.

"We see the point now where the legacy BIOS is finally unable to meet the needs of future operating systems and hardware-based platforms," proclaims Richard Brunner, one of AMD's lead developers of AMD64 architecture. "Legacy BIOS, we think, has persisted for as long as it has due to the prevalence of certain classes of legacy devices. Also, quite honestly, inertia in both the operating system and the BIOS vendors, [along with] the problem that there was not, until recently, any sort of viable alternative with enough industry players behind it. So we think now we've finally reached the point where the most difficult legacy I/O devices are starting to disappear."

[Tom's Hardware Guide]

[Ruggerbugger]

Very intriguing. Perhaps this would make it easy to have some sort of preOS media playback or email access, two things I hate having to boot all the way into Windows for.

[Kumagoro]

Wasnt intel working on a BIOS replacement a few years ago? lets hope they get it moving along this time.

[Steve]

Wasnt intel working on a BIOS replacement a few years ago? lets hope they get it moving along this time.

Windows XP has some support for EFI. At least it's mentioned in some of the help files, for example in the section about dynamic disks.

[Nox]

electronic fuel injection??

cool next step turbo's!!!

Nox