On 5/21/2013 2:20 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2013-05-21 04:03 +0200, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > >> On 5/20/2013 4:30 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: >>> MIPS and ARM machines don't have a traditional BIOS either, >> >> Yes, that was my point. You'll probably never see UEFI on these >> platforms. So LILO could be used basically forever. > > Hardly, because LILO depends on a BIOS. And it's written in x86 > assembly, so not even buildable on these architectures.
Note I made the point, before you, that MIPS and ARM are different beasts. The point I was making above is that grub2 will never be universal for all Linux platforms, thus there's no need for all distros to use only grub2 for x86. And since there are no LILO/Linux limitations on x86, "LILO could be used basically forever". > As for UEFI - we'll see what the future holds. Yes, this will be interesting to watch. What we'll see in the immediate future is more mobos with switchable UEFI/legacy BIOS support. Whether UEFI will completely takeover is the question, and if so, when? -- Stan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/519bf6d8.5020...@hardwarefreak.com
