Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 10:56:56 +0800 From: "Wilkinson, Alex" <alex.wilkinson@dsto.defence.gov.au> To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GPT as default? Message-ID: <20070424025655.GA60024@obelix.dsto.defence.gov.au> In-Reply-To: <09A66888-CB75-42B7-878B-0FB71DA36D32@mac.com> References: <f0eauu$97s$1@sea.gmane.org> <A08237C6-0F3C-4C60-B5C0-8C5AD3998EC7@mac.com> <f0g55u$dn7$1@sea.gmane.org> <DF7EC867-FC12-4C2C-92E6-4FCC18795562@mac.com> <86irboi0ra.fsf@dwp.des.no> <3383A397-6A95-4546-841D-CF17B98A797C@mac.com> <861wibin3h.fsf@dwp.des.no> <71073037-7FA3-4C51-9276-8AA7F42B95DE@mac.com> <462CEC00.2010304@fer.hr> <09A66888-CB75-42B7-878B-0FB71DA36D32@mac.com>
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0n Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 11:17:27AM -0700, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
>>Also, if we forgo EFI for now (because, let's admit
>>it, it's not used in non-OSX x86 and AMD64 machines),
>
>It is, actually: ia64. EFI was specifically designed for ia64,
>with the intention to be a replacement for the BIOS on non-
>legacy i386 machines.
Ok, not knowing much about GPT and EFI but learning bits and pieces from just
reading this thread I have one question - How long before we will see the BIOS
disappear and EFI move into the x86 world ? Can you even buy x86 motherboards
that are EFI now ?
-aW
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