Exclusive: BIOS will be dead in three years

[mavihs]

It's the one major part of the PC that's still reminiscent of the PC's primordial, text-based beginnings, but the familiarly-clunky BIOS could soon be on its deathbed, according to MSI. The motherboard maker says it's now making a big shift towards point and click UEFI systems, and it's all going to kick off at the end of this year.

Speaking to THINQ, a spokesperson for the company in Taiwan who wished to remain anonymous said that "MSI will start to phase in UEFI starting from the end of this year, and we expect it will be widely adopted after three years."
According to the MSI mole, the first new UEFI products will be based on Intel's Sandy Bridge chipset, spanning the whole field from entry-level boards to high-end kit. The company says that it expects the boards to be introduced towards the end of this year, and into early 2011. "We won’t consider UEFI as an expensive premium feature," said the spokesperson, "but as a must-have for everyone!"

Read More: http://www.thinq.co.uk/2010/6/8/excl...d-three-years/

[ico]

Whats the point?

UEFI just doesn't bring any significant advantage over BIOS and will over-complicate the things.

What if some companies "limit the control of your hardware" with their EFI?

[duh]

coreboot will rescue those dead PC's and portable PC's, coreboot will CPR them up and make them breathe and compete.
intel said way back in 2006 80 core CPU and 4 gigs, nothing happened, intel said via UEFI bios will die, coreboot gave them a big middle finger up.

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Originally Posted by ico

Whats the point?

UEFI just doesn't bring any significant advantage over BIOS and will over-complicate the things.

What if some companies "limit the control of your hardware" with their EFI?

i did try my time with UEFI intel's tianocore, sadly? it sucks. and my laptop c734tu's specs are not fully released for coreboot. the coreboot hackers are on their way to find a solution, i salute them.
and secondly? uefi can/can-not be centrally controlled. you can add the tcp stack in it, both in 32 bit and 64 bit mode. but you can also bypass it easily. how? well i got this laptop with freedos, slic 2.0 for vista was disabled, i enabled it and also i injected slic 2.1 for windows 7. big deal.
if you know how to decompress the squashfs tarball of your bios? you can add and remove each and every components.

[vickyadvani]

need to wait and watch on this....