On 23.09.2009 15:29, Zheng Bao wrote: > I got a brief UEFI introduction. It seems that it is pretty close to coreboot. > > They have same goal and face same problem. Any idea? >
I think there are quite some differences which make coreboot the better solution: - The lowlevel parts of UEFI are closed source. - UEFI is bigger/bloated. - UEFI stays resident in memory. - UEFI has to provide network/disk/video drivers which can/should be used by the OS. And if someone really wants EFI functionality, it is possible to run UEFI as a coreboot payload. Besides that, if you want a completely opensource firmware with UEFI, you have to use coreboot+UEFI because the chipset/CPU init in UEFI is not open source. Regards, Carl-Daniel -- http://www.hailfinger.org/ -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
