+++ Blibbet [2015-01-13 14:34 -0800]: > > AFAICT, all Intel hardware needs either legacy PC BIOS or modern UEFI to > run. ARM can work without UEFI, the only vendors that use UEFI with ARM > are using it for HW/OS DRM mechanism.
No. Server-oriented hardware is using UEFI because it matches customer expectations (and make x86 and arm boot the same way, which is nice for both distros and sysadmins). HW trusted-code mechanisms are incidental. You can expect to see more ARM hardware booting with UEFI (which as I understand it is in fact Free Software, although it can have non-free modules) (and ACPI (boo!)). Dev-board hardware is still being built with uboot, but higher-end and consumer-oriented stuff is likely to come with UEFI, even in ARM world. Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Debian, Wookware, ARM http://wookware.org/ _______________________________________________ Freedombox-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss
