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>i7-4770HQ haha Intel cant even get rid of binary blobs from their official open source Atom platform (minnowboard). Intel UEFI bios is >100K lines of hand t

by rasz_pl 12y ago

>i7-4770HQ haha Intel cant even get rid of binary blobs from their official open source Atom platform (minnowboard). Intel UEFI bios is >100K lines of hand tuned spaghetti code that never saw version control system, thats straight from the mouth of Intel employee.

bjackman 12y ago
Actually Intel run EDK2/Tianocore, the open-source "reference implementation" of UEFI. Its core functionality is pretty good quality, but the repo is huge and there's a lot of junk in there. Actual motherboards usually run (closed) forks of it.
RexRollman 12y ago
I know that legacy BIOS has its issues, but from what I have seen and read, EFI/UEFI is a quagmire.
- tryp 12y ago
  (U)EFI is essentially a little OS that eventually loads the OS that runs the software you care about. Intel sponsors most of the core OS code (mirrored) at: https://github.com/tianocore/edk2 https://github.com/tianocore/edk2 A Bios vendor takes that code, drops in a bunch of hardware init code from Intel (or AMD), adds thier own user interface, "csm16" old-school BIOS implementation, and value-adds like debugging and automation for factory test and provisioning. In order to comprehend anything in the codebase, the first step is probably to get acquainted with the local vernacular. https://github.com/tianocore/tianocore.github.io/wiki/Acronyms-and-Glossary https://github.com/tianocore/tianocore.github.io/wiki/Acrony...