Today's really bad speculations

[ti94]

My beloved platform, are you selling out?

Comments

[regek]

Why on earth is it that nobody can be bothered to actually read what the people who know are writing? Even rather large tech news sites can't seem to actually read what people are writing

[regek]

Ack. That wasn't meant to be so much a gripe at you as a gripe at Boing Boing.

[wolfmudenaugen]

What is EFI? I had assumed that they were going to use OpenFirmware still..

[regek]

Nope. No more OpenFirmware. This makes me rather sad in a way, since I've still got that OF Towers Of Hanoi game around here somewhere. Oh well.

EFI stands for Extensible Firmware Interface. That's a link to the Wikipedia article on it. The interesting thing about EFI is that it's rather similar to OF in a number of ways. For example:

Ideally, the EFI development model will extend the concept of hardware drivers to the lowest level of the PC structure. Currently all motherboard device initialization is done through a BIOS designed by a BIOS vendor. With the EFI model, however, manufacturers of motherboard hardware will be free to write their own hardware drivers, akin to how companies write OS device drivers for their products. Among other things, this frees EFI to initialize all hardware before turning control over to the OS. This feature could be used, for example, to allow the PC to connect to the Internet and retrieve drivers before an OS is even installed.
Sounds awfully similar to the Forth dictionaries that OpenFirmware

[tixen]

This is old, old news, Tris. You're not keeping up. :p

[ti94]

Given the websites I read these days, I generally get news as fast as Cory gives it to me. :)

[tixen]

:)