Re: [gentoo-user] [OFF-TOPIC] Best bios type thingy to boot a computer

2018-08-31 Thread Godzil
I really enjoyed (and still) Open Firmware which was used by Apple on the PowerPC macintosh (starting from the first PCI models up to the latest G5) It is a nice environment, with all the capabilities of UEFI with even more as it come for free and directly with a Forth interpreter (basically

Re: [gentoo-user] [OFF-TOPIC] Best bios type thingy to boot a computer

2018-08-31 Thread Andrew Lowe
On 31/08/18 23:16, Andrew Udvare wrote: > On 8/31/18 10:46 AM, Andrew Lowe wrote: >> Hi all, > >> This is not to start a flame war, I just want to do some reading, >> wikipedia pages, for self interest on how a BIOS could have/should have >> been done. I'm thinking of how DECStations,

Re: [gentoo-user] [OFF-TOPIC] Best bios type thingy to boot a computer

2018-08-31 Thread Andrew Udvare
On 8/31/18 10:46 AM, Andrew Lowe wrote: > Hi all, > This is not to start a flame war, I just want to do some reading, > wikipedia pages, for self interest on how a BIOS could have/should have > been done. I'm thinking of how DECStations, Alpha's SPARCs etc etc > booted up. Try

[gentoo-user] [OFF-TOPIC] Best bios type thingy to boot a computer

2018-08-31 Thread Andrew Lowe
Hi all, A bit of an off topic question , mainly aimed at those who, shall we say, been there and done that. It is very common to find webpages stating that the BIOS that is in a PC is a mess with respect to the way things boot, device discovery etc. Looking back through the fog