Unless someone makes a linux pc (ie something like apple for linux to get what i mean) none of the big MFGs will give a fuck about what Mark, Alan or any other linux user thinks about ACPI.
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Originally posted by sireangelus View Postcoreboot is just an open source bios.This bios is both acpi and uefi.
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How stuff works..
Oh, if only we had good articles which explain how stuff works (to non-idiots).
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_startup_process
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coreboot
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Das_U-Boot
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_GRUB
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootloader
And oh, look, isn't that a funny screenshot:
Sue, if only we also had some schemes, that visualize processes...
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Originally posted by NotMine999 View PostUEFI is a useless but glamous GUI interface to the system BIOS for the "point & click" crowd.Originally posted by 89c51 View PostUnless someone makes a linux pc (ie something like apple for linux to get what i mean) none of the big MFGs will give a fuck about what Mark, Alan or any other linux user thinks about ACPI.
The other is the OLPC XO series (x86 and ARM), which uses Open Firmware, and does power management without ACPI. The implementation in the OLPC is quite compact, and the IEEE 1275 Open Firmware specification is around 266 pages. Compare this to 1084 pages for Intel EFI 1.10, which has grown to 1437 pages for UEFI 2.0 (I don't know the current count for UEFI 2.4, but I believe it is above 2000 pages now).
So it should be clear to anybody who values small and easy to verify boot code that UEFI is totally contrary to this goal.Last edited by chithanh; 18 March 2014, 07:55 AM.
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Originally posted by chithanh View PostSo it should be clear to anybody who values small and easy to verify boot code that UEFI is totally contrary to this goal.
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