[VR-zone] MSI to use EFI BIOS on new P35-Neo3 - Page 4 - Overclock.net

DuckieHo · 01-17-08

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Originally Posted by airbozo

Also old news to the Super Computing community since SGI has been using an efi loader since they helped HP and Intel develop it. I use it daily when working on the sgi Altix platform. At first it kind of sucks because you have to figure out a new way to interact with the system. Once it is "mainstreamed" I expect it to get more intuitive. Very handy to trouble shoot problems or fix HD's.

For example; Once I power on the system and get the efi prompt I can run limited unix/linux/dos commands. I can mount drives, search drives, copy and replace files, install software updates (from local files or network), reconfigure the kernel, reorganize boot priorities and even ping systems on the network.

EDIT: Oh and BTW, this functionality has been on sgi (and other) systems since the late 80's (or even earlier). It was just not called efi.

airbozo, any idea why consumer PC adoption is virtually non-existent?

airbozo · 01-17-08

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Originally Posted by DuckieHo

airbozo, any idea why consumer PC adoption is virtually non-existent?

I was told it was because of a couple of reasons. First it was developed for systems using the Itanium processors, The initial cost was too high, and just like the 640mb barrier, and other legacy issues, most vendors did not want to kill the backwards compatibility of their systems for functionality that was not really needed. It is just logical that the next place for efi to end up is on our desktops.*

This is a PDF document covering the efi shell commands;
http://www.intel.com/software/produc...l_cmnd_1_1.pdf

EDIT: *Just like I expect NUMA architecture to eventually trickle down the the desktop market. We just don't need that kind of memory technology. Yet.

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