Modern x86-64 chips resemble their 8 and 16 bit predecessors superficially at best
Intel announced it is removing the Compatibility Support Module from UEFI by 2020...
Joseph Garcia
David Carter
Why would it need support for any kind of partition table? BIOS didn't have that either.
Justin Flores
An FPGA board like MiST is very different from a real Amiga 500, but it still behaves identically. The exact circuitry doesn't matter, the behavior does. The fact that there exist ring -2 exploit for amd64 that leverages old behavior is proof that the silicon itself isn't so important, only the behavior.
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Ayden Turner
Glad you admitted that, son. Whenever you boot with BIOS, you start in 16-bit "real" mode with A20 disabled. Your latest PC can't access more than 1 MB RAM until you enable it with a fake keyboard controller.
Anthony Nelson
user, this thread is literally about Intel killing BIOS
Luis Kelly
Its not about support. BIOS has "support for 101" things that nobody uses. OS now basically ignore 99% of the BIOS and leave the influence asap.
With UEFI, a lot of that cruft can be cleaned up and replaced with something far leaner than BIOS (like in Coreboot). Instead of running a bunch of legacy BIOS programs just to "chainboot" and reach your bootloader, UEFI requires a lot fewer steps. UEFI can even BE your bootloader if you wish.
Coreboot is an example of good UEFI. OEMs can make shitty UEFI that does weird, nonstandard shit that breaks compatibility or spies on you or other has bloat in general. Of course, BIOS had this problem too.
Noah Fisher
Don't forget they stopped doing hardware validation 4 years ago, the users have been the beta testing department for all new Intel chips since then.
You know how every first iteration of a new AMD CPU design turns out to be a broken clusterfuck? The Athlon 64 having no thermal safety. Phenom 1 having a crippling TLB bug. FX chips being slow garbage. 2017w09-w30 Ryzens flat out failing under moderate FMA3 unit load. That's going to be happening to every Intel chip from now on. And unlike AMD they won't get their shit together with a second revision any more - Tick Tock is already dead and buried.
Short your x86 stocks and start buying RISCV and IBM, cause Tel-Aviv is about to have an industry crash in the next few years.
Cameron Bell
underrated, but not really enough. this is blatantly an attempt to kill off any systems not under the (((thumb))) of the authorities, as is systemd, which Linus also doesn't speak out against much.