Intel Officially Launches New Centrino Mobile Platform.
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| Instead of BIOS, the new Intel Centrino platform supports UEFI, an
| interface that helps hand off control of the system for the
| pre-boot environment (i.e.: after the system is powered on, but
| before the operating system starts) to an operating system,
| such as Windows or Linux.
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http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/multimedia/display/20070509234710.html
Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI, UEFI)
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| Microsoft announced at last week's Intel Developer Forum that it will
| not support UEFI in Vista. I'm sure that most of the crowd shrugged
| their shoulders and didn't give that a second thought, but this could
| be another Microsoft blunder.
|
| Linux supports EFI, and the new Intel Apples actually are EFI systems.
| It would seem obvious that Microsoft should be moving on this more
| quickly than it is.
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http://aplawrence.com/MacOSX/efi.html
Related:
Intel to make major UEFI announcement
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| "It takes a few years to unseat a legacy - it took 22 years to create
| it and it has taken a few years to unseat. New technology usually
| happens first in servers - all the server markers are now using
| UEFI -- and Microsoft has been working with us, it just takes a
| few years," he said.
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http://apcmag.com/5845/intel_to_make_major_efi_announcement_tomorrow
Amidst Boom, Warning Signs On The Horizon
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| Reports about the crack started circulation online a few weeks
| ago. The method uses a feature that allows system builders to
| qualify new computers as licensed by inserting a short digital
| marker in the BIOS. Upon detection of this special marker,
| Windows XP and Vista bypass product activation and anti-piracy
| checks.
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http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2187590/microsoft-mulls-counterattack
WARNING!! There is windows in my.. BIOS!!!!
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| From my laptop's Bios download page
|
| This BIOS is ONLY for use with Windows Vista. Please do not install this
| BIOS for use with Windows XP, or other Windows versions.
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http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?p=2705017#post2705017
LinuxBIOS with X11 server, completely in Flash ROM
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| All of this in a normal BIOS chip (2 MB), without any hard drive
| connected (who needs hard drives when you can fit everything in the
| BIOS just fine)...
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http://www.hermann-uwe.de/blog/linuxbios-with-x11-server-completely-in-flash-rom
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| LinuxBIOS is a Free Software project aimed at replacing the normal BIOS
| with a little bit of hardware initialization and a compressed Linux
| kernel that can be booted from a cold start.
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http://www.linuxbios.org/index.php/Main_Page
First desktop motherboard supported by LinuxBIOS: GIGABYTE M57SLI-S4
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| The GIGABYTE M57SLI-S4 [1] is the first-ever desktop motherboard
| supported by a Free & Open Source BIOS, thanks to AMD engineer
| Yinghai Lu who released GPL-licensed code last month.
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http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0702.2/2347.html
http://linuxbios.org/Supported_Motherboards
LinuxBIOS: The Forgotten Hero
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| This begs the question: is anyone currently using LinuxBIOS on
| their machines? You bet they are. According to one recent report,
| LinuxBIOS was installed on about one million machines and that
| existing number is expected to rise significantly, assuming the
| rate of growth remains constant.
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http://www.madpenguin.org/cms/?m=show&id=7694
Google Sponsors the LinuxBIOS project
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| The LinuxBIOS project aims to take down the last barrier in Open
| Source systems by providing a free firmware (BIOS) implementation.
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http://addict3d.org/index.php?page=viewarticle&type=news&ID=31343
LinuxBIOS ready to go mainstream
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| LinuxBIOS is intended to provide a philosophically free replacement
| for proprietary firmware in chipsets.
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http://enterprise.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/11/30/199208&from=rss
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