The Extensible Firmware Interface vs early Linux

Posted Aug 23, 2011 18:05 UTC (Tue) by giraffedata (guest, #1954)
In reply to: The Extensible Firmware Interface vs early Linux by etienne
Parent article: The Extensible Firmware Interface - an introduction

The BIOS should be dumb, but in practice it [isn't].

And in case it wasn't clear, this is exactly the point I opened the thread with, if BIOS means "the code fixed to the motherboard that boots the OS."

I would like to see that intelligence moved into a physically changeable, easily creatable storage device and suggest that a Linux system on a USB disk is the best choice for that.