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<DIV>I wanted to bring to attention Intel's Platform Innovation Framework for
Extensible Firmware Interface since its goals overlap with those LinuxBIOS a
little bit. After reading the article at <A
href="http://www.linuxdevices.com/articles/AT3790951165.html">http://www.linuxdevices.com/articles/AT3790951165.html</A>,
I had some </DIV>
<DIV>questions about the ability of LinuxBIOS to support next-generation
hardware. It looks like Intel wants to change the
whole firmware landscape with EFI. If such a framework will be
truly open and support legacy systems, it'll make LinuxBIOS redundant, wouldn't
it? What about </DIV>
<DIV>newer architectures like those built around the Itanium?
Will LinuxBIOS </DIV>
<DIV>be able to scale up as well as EFI? Those are questions that I wanted
to throw out there.</DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>