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Completely agree. Something like Project Treble, but for PC hardware. Thinking about it, this is what the BIOS was originally for: to provide a bare minimum ab
by cjdell 6y ago
Completely agree. Something like Project Treble, but for PC hardware.
Thinking about it, this is what the BIOS was originally for: to provide a bare minimum abstraction to the hardware. I hoped that UEFI would extend this abstraction in a meaningful way, making OS development easier. Instead it has made it even more complex.
- hapless 6y agoThe original EFI spec very much did extend that abstraction. You can do a lot in an EFI environment if the hardware plays ball: network, disk, video etc UEFI, sadly, added support for raw x86 option ROMs, to some extent casting us back into the "old" world.