On 03/26/2012 08:00 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > Which leads me to a rant about ARM. Grrrr RANT!! I didn't think I'd > ever love the BIOS, but compared to the alternatives (UEFI and a > million different ARM bootloaders) it's simple and effective. There is some truth to that. Nobody is going to stand up and say that the 32-bit ARM "zoo" (as I have called it on a number of occasions) is a situation today. This is a case where strong leadership and aggressive standardization is required in order to have *one* platform. That work is ongoing at the moment, and in the interim, we live with slightly more pain than would be ideal. But therein lies the fun ;) In the future, ARM systems will transition increasingly to UEFI. Many ARM server systems will likely eventually boot with ACPI as well. They will smell like low-energy alternatives to PC servers over time, and in another decade or two something more exciting than UEFI will replace UEFI and folks will mail about how things were better with UEFI! Jon. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
