Basically the title

  • Captain Aggravated
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    1 month ago

    I wonder what the newest PC motherboard with the BIOS ROM in a socketed DIP chip is.

    • schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business
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      1 month ago

      At least a decade old, if not more than.

      If you wanted to swap your vendor EFI image to something else, at this point it’s all going to be via a SPI programmer, and if you own one of the two boards that it supports, coreboot/openboot.

      But, essentially, you can’t swap because there’s very little supported hardware, and thus are stuck with your vendor proprietary EFI.

      What’s hilarious, I guess? is that the EFI setup is more or less it’s own OS that can then chainboot an OS which is how the mid90s workstations (Sun, SGI, HP, etc.) worked.