[Sussex] BIOS no-more (hooray?)

[Angelo Servini]

Does that mean that we will get faster bootup times?

>
>Secondly.. it seems that Intel is moving it's Extensible 
>Firmware Interface
>(EFI) technology down from the Itanium to Pentium class 
>systems, the plan is
>that this will spell the end of the last legacy of the 
>original PC - the
>BIOS (or at least from everything above the EFI's point of view).
>
>On the plus side EFI will mean the end of the text mode boot 
>environment and
>will allow basic hardware drivers to be included on the 
>hardware itself.
>

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