Comment by vel0city
20 hours ago
> Does anyone still use UEFI?
Yes. It's extremely common.
> If I start looking into the latest and greatest Qualcomm Nuvia ARM Windows laptops, does it use UEFI?
Yes, those use UEFI.
> Or regular BIOS?
Almost nothing widely produced today uses old "regular BIOS". Even those which seem to use "regular BIOS" are largely UEFI systems acting like a legacy BIOS. Even things like Apple MacBooks which don't use EFI use an Apple custom similar firmware concept far removed from legacy BIOS.
What do you think will succeed UEFI ?
I dunno. Probably some kind of firmware interface standard. Hopefully it'll be extensible so the same base design can adapt to a large range of hardware profiles and features. It sure would be nice if it was a unified concept as well so there could be wide ranges of compatibility.
Only kind of kidding. I imagine the future for a while will either be continued growth into proprietary firmware platforms (like Apple and how tons of other phones/tablets have done) or a reworking/adapting of the main concepts behind UEFI but maybe making it less like ancient Microsoft-like patterns. Potentially something like u-boot becoming more common, or things like LK (Little Kernel). I think we'll see more evolution instead of hard replacement of concepts.
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