No more BIOS, say hello to EFI

[Technoid]

Originally posted by WyWyWyWy
Any chance for screenshots?

Anyway, to my understanding is that BIOS handles interupt calls, not "loading drivers" etc.

yup exactly

Lots of marbles here.......

[Wombat]

Originally posted by Technoid

Anyway, to my understanding is that BIOS handles interupt calls, not "loading drivers" etc.

yup exactly

Lots of marbles here.......

No, you guys just take it for granted that the motherboard works. It <I>does</I> have drivers. How do you think the north bridge interacts with the south bridge? How do you think the system adjusts the clock generators? How do you think the floppy drive works? How do you think the damn thing reads your HD/CD/floppy and boots? The answer is drivers. But for some reason, because it's flashed onto the NVRAM, you guys don't seem to get that.

Think about the first CD-drives. They hooked onto an ISA adapter card, and couldn't be used until the drivers were loaded in the OS memory. Now, you can stick a bootable CD-R in your drive, and the machine will go. You think that happens without drivers?