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schizoidman@lemmy.zip to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 23 hours ago

China releases 'UBIOS' standard to replace UEFI — Huawei-backed BIOS firmware replacement charges China's domestic computing goals

www.tomshardware.com

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China releases 'UBIOS' standard to replace UEFI — Huawei-backed BIOS firmware replacement charges China's domestic computing goals

www.tomshardware.com

schizoidman@lemmy.zip to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 23 hours ago
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Support for chiplets, heterogeneous computing, and a step away from U.S.-based standards are key features of China's BIOS replacement.
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    UEFI is a standard, not a product. You could make your own even

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      https://libreboot.org/

      Or use this…

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        Tianocore open source uefi implementation exist for many years

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        This doesn’t support many boards.

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          True, but I really appreciate that someone is doing it. (It’s far beyond my capabilities…)

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      could

      could in the same sense that i could check all software i use for bugs and malicious code. realistically, i can’t, because it’s way too much work.

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        But you could work together with other people, and you could be many people that each checked his/her part for malicious code.

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      So that just means UBIOS is explicitly for spying since UEFI is open source and a standard right?

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