Hoi Bernd, > As Tom already mentioned, FreeDOS is usually included (typically on the > support CD) as an 'in-your-face' towards Microsoft with their 'every PC > has to be sold with an OS'...
> However with the move of motherboard companies as well as BIOS writers > AMI and Award/Phoenix towards EFI/UEFI instead of BIOS, these practices > will likely come to an end. Not really - www.coreboot.org/SeaBIOS you can simply load an UEFI payload which implements the classic PC BIOS interface. Actually it seems that modern BIOSes already do this and just do not talk much about also supporting UEFI, maybe because Windows still runs worse with their not yet complete and stable UEFI core behind ;-) For example some AM3 / AM3+ boards claim to have the best of both worlds by supporting GPT partition boot from huge disks thanks to their UEFI under the hood while still "having a normal BIOS"... If a very futuristic BIOS would only show the UEFI side and save the "ROM" flash space to provide a classic BIOS, you can load your SeaBIOS after booting an UEFI-capable boot loader or maybe you can flash SeaBIOS as additional module on your mainboard. All of course speculation from my side as I have not seen such BIOSes yet :-p You can also use SeaBIOS with Coreboot if you want to go fully open source but I still hope that mainboard makers know more about their hardware and should ship drivers themselves. On the other hand, you know that many ACPI tables are quite broken, forcing OS writers to create workarounds, people even started to collect homegrown tables. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ EditLive Enterprise is the world's most technically advanced content authoring tool. Experience the power of Track Changes, Inline Image Editing and ensure content is compliant with Accessibility Checking. http://p.sf.net/sfu/ephox-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
