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So we should expect generic/customizable UEFI and ACPI implementations to become available and at least as easy to configure as Linux itself for bare-metal boar
by marshray 13y ago
So we should expect generic/customizable UEFI and ACPI implementations to become available and at least as easy to configure as Linux itself for bare-metal board builders.
The main question left is how much overhead will this impose on embedded systems?
- wmf 13y agoOr we should expect that UEFI/ACPI is such a high cost that there will be very few boards that support RHEL.
- mjg59 13y agoTiano's already fairly modular - it's not too difficult to replace chunks of the hardware-specific code. ACPI is more of a problem. Long-term I'd expect SoC vendors to provide reference tables which end up being hacked by board and system vendors, which is actually pretty much what happens already in the x86 world (your BIOS vendor ships a reference table that includes code from people like Intel, and then you modify it to match your specific board)