On Tuesday 30 Dec 2003 8:04 pm, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
http://news.com.com/2100-7337_3-5131787.html?tag=nefd_lede
Bios maybe replaced by EFI and Microsoft are helping to develop it.
I read something about this a few months ago - PC Plus probably, I think they had a an article about major changes in PC architecture upcoming e.g. SATA, PCI Express (?).
AFAIR the basic idea is that as little as possible will be on the motherboard chip, just a simple boot-strap loader. There will be a hidden partition on the hard-drive and all other bios-like functions will be there in s/w. In theory it could open things up for FOSS, not lead to an MS-controlled lockdown, since almost everything in the boot process would be in soft not hardware.
A lot easier than burning your own bios eprom anyway :-)
Syd