Re: [LUG] Bios replacement will result in much faster boot times - which will be nice :-)

[Gordon Henderson <gordon+dcglug@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 4 Oct 2010, Julian Hall wrote:

> On 04/10/2010 23:13, Roland Tarver wrote:
> > http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/mobile/technology-11430069?SThisFB
> >
> > According to the above 2011 will be the year of faster boot times (not
> > the linux desktop - sorry lol). An update to the way the bios works
> > (totally new method) should result in much faster boot time.
> >
> > Best wishes
> > roly
> According to a friend it's going to include the Trusted Computing platform so 
> will only play with Windows.  How true that is I don't know.

there are alternatives - the big problem is lack of compatable hardware, 
and the ability to re-flash the BIOS..

If bored, check out:

http://www.coreboot.org/Welcome_to_coreboot

http://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot

http://www.openfirmware.info/Welcome_to_OpenBIOS

Gordon

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