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I wish! I hate my PC's bios. So many superfluous timeouts, so much waiting around (clearly braindead programming that doesn't do hardware well). A stupid text b

I wish! I hate my PC's bios. So many superfluous timeouts, so much waiting around (clearly braindead programming that doesn't do hardware well). A stupid text based config interface. Nothing about the BIOS is good.

pjmlp 13y ago
You mean, besides providing a standard way to access hardware that ARM systems still don't have to this day?
- jfb 13y ago
  And all this time, I thought my x86-64 workstation was BIOS free! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Int...
  - pjmlp 13y ago
    > UEFI is meant to replace the Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) firmware interface Hence firmware to replace BIOS, with the same purpose as BIOS. So do you re-program your UEFI firmware? And since when is x86-64 an ARM system, since that was my remark?
- e12e 13y ago
  Having a specification and a reference implementation is possible without the reference implementation being proprietary... Personally I would much prefer that.
- nitrogen 13y ago
  According to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6083583 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6083583, Coreboot is being ported to ARM.