Summary

• A promising direction in general ג€“ letג€™s get rid of the BIOS!

• For prototype development:

  • tinkering with hardware may cause pain in various parts of anatomy, or sudden death
  • not clear if target hardware or prototype hardware is supported
    • quite a bit of hacking may be required ג€“ not necessarily a bad thing
  • open source - a major advantage for hacking
  • limited OS support, though LILO/GRUB are reported to work, so there is hope

• For product development:

  • need a limited range of hardware to work
  • tinkering with hardware is not a problem
  • quite a few advantages in deployment
    • fast boot
    • flexible
    • concurrent remote access, logging, etc
  • biggest question ג€“ hardware and OS support