[Oberon] UEFI

[D EMARD]

Here is a FPGA project that emulates SPI flash
to let UEFI first boot motherboard and then it
reflash another bootloader instead of UEFI.

https://github.com/osresearch/spispy


On 11/25/20, eas lab <lab.eas at gmail.com> wrote:
> Nemo Nusquam wrote:-
>>It would even be better if every UEFI just came with a built-in UEFI
>>shell selectable from the boot menu, but it would probably scare too
>>many users or make them brick their machine, so I understand that this
>>won't happen.
> ---
> My problematic/el-cheapo: $US190 [connex L1470 14inch laptop; 4-core
> Atom] NOW shows 3 boot selections:
>  windows Boot Manager
>  UFI: Buily-in EFI Shell
>  Enter Setup
> That's after <power on> & F7.
> I had previously done <Setup>, which normal/non-tech users would/could
> NOT do. Re. EFI shell: do we want to learn *ANOTHER* language to
> support M$hit's abusive monopoly ?  It looks like:---
>  Shell>  ...
> I can't find my TutorialNotes <to `less` their help menu>.
> At least they are following unix and have stopped their BABY-TALK of
> calling directories "folders".
>
>> I miss the days of OBF.
> Correct: so saying we can just make a choice, and "there's no problem",
> is simplistically wrong.
>
> BTW, since WiFi is a welcome tech-advance: where do ANY of our oberon
> systems manage that?
>
> ==CRG.
>
>
> On 11/25/20, Nemo Nusquam <cym224 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 11/24/20 16:51, Michael Schierl wrote (in part):
>>> It would even be better if every UEFI just came with a built-in UEFI
>>> shell selectable from the boot menu, but it would probably scare too
>>> many users or make them brick their machine, so I understand that this
>>> won't happen.
>> I miss the days of OBF.
>>
>> N.
>> --
>> Oberon at lists.inf.ethz.ch mailing list for ETH Oberon and related systems
>> https://lists.inf.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/oberon
>>
> --
> Oberon at lists.inf.ethz.ch mailing list for ETH Oberon and related systems
> https://lists.inf.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/oberon
>