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q66@gts.q66.moe

nina

mfw some people be like "i like bios because it's simpler than efi" but then when you're actually dealing with creating an image that correctly boots everywhere, you're in for a world of pain

there are so many random cases of bios machines failing to boot for various reasons with various workarounds (in the bootloader code, or in the way your image is assembled) that it's not even funny

efi may be more complex underneath but your chances of creating a bootloader or image that actually works anywhere are *much* greater

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q66@gts.q66.moe

nina

Reply to @q66@gts.q66.moe

tbh i agree that efi is overly complex a lot of the times and... we already had a good standard

it was called openfirmware and it had an ieee standard 1275-1994

there was even at least one x86 machine with it (the olpc)

shame it did not get wider adoption outside powerpc and sparc

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ozzelot@mstdn.social

Ozzelot anarchy linux

Reply to @q66@gts.q66.moe

@q66 the olpc had openfirmware?!

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pavel

Pavel Machek

Reply to @ozzelot@mstdn.social
@ozzelot @q66 Yes, olpc has openfirmware. Forth in the BIOS, iirc ;-).
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ozzelot@mstdn.social

Ozzelot anarchy linux

Reply to @pavel

@pavel @q66 that’s the nerdiest thing i can imagine. shame it kind of misunderstood its market.

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pavel

Pavel Machek

Reply to @ozzelot@mstdn.social
@ozzelot @q66 Well, it was "make kids smart" project, not "lets sell hardware" project. At the end of OLPC project, "normal" hardware was cheap enough for the task.
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eloy@hsnl.social

Eloy

Reply to @pavel

@pavel @q66 @ozzelot OLPC in a nutshell https://xkcd.com/2128/

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