The end appears to be nigh for BIOS, as the 25-year-old start-up software is finally usurped by UEFI. According to its designers (the UEFI forum) “UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) will be a specification detailing an interface that helps hand off control of the system for the pre-boot environment (i.e.: after the system is powered on, but before the operating system starts) to an operating system, such as Windows or Linux. UEFI will provide a clean interface between operating systems and platform firmware at boot time, and will support an architecture-independent mechanism for initializing add-in cards.”
In an interview with the BBC, Mark Doran, head of the UEFI Forum he described the antiquated BIOS as “up there with some of the physical pieces of the chip set that have been kicking around the PC since 1979". The new UEFI specification will be de facto in all new specification builds from early 2011 - watch this space! For more information see: UEFI Homepage.
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