Any word on EFI Motherboards being released?

[James]

I am really looking forward to the new EFI standard. It's been a long time in coming, and it could definitely be used.

For those of you who don't know, EFI is Extensible Firmware Interface, and it is slated to (eventually) replace the BIOS. The beautiful thing is twofold.

1. It's an open standard, which means that all of the hardware companies can offer input on it.

2. It's no longer 16-bit code based, which is what the current (and pretty much all BIOS through history) are based on. This will help with the advancements in future hardware.

Imagine being able to boot into either a text or GUI interface, and being able to access the internet, all your hardware, do a quick hdd to hdd copy, all from the "BIOS" replacement interface.

Definitely psyched about this. The only demo I've seen of the technology was an Intel board that was using the EFI to store the BIOS, rather than an EEPROM chip. Intel spearheaded the idea, so they have a lot more info than other companies.

Here's a nice article that has an overview of the technology:

http://developer.intel.com/technology/efi/

http://linuxdevices.com/articles/AT3790951165.html

http://news.com.com/Battle+brews+ove...3-5654272.html (Has a mention of the Technology)

http://press.arrivenet.com/tec/article.php/645407.html