> As the United States has cut China off from advanced semiconductor technology, tightened controls on Chinese investments in U.S. firms, and scrutinized the flow of Chinese students and scholars to American universities, Beijing has stressed the need for indigenous innovation and to seize control of core technologies.
"UBIOS will be further discussed and revealed by the Global Computing Consortium at the 2025 Global Computing Conference in Shenzhen this November. For a country looking to both bolster its own domestic computing ecosystem and step away from American systems that constrict non-standard hardware implementations, the development of UBIOS may prove to be a major win for China. However, whether UBIOS becomes widely adopted and championed like the open standard RISC-V, or widely abandoned like LoongArch, remains to be seen."
Getting rid of the BIOS sounds awesome. I assume that means that it gets rid of code running the SMM, which can prevent invisible code from sapping performance from the machine for no apparent reason. For example, on recent AMD machines, such as my Zen 3 machine, memory bandwidth measured by ZFS' checksum algorithms will randomly drop by a significant percentage and there is no obvious reason why, although I suspect patrol scrubs are involved.
That begs the question. What does the patrol scrubs of ECC memory on your hardware?
Sounds pretty self-defeating.
My older BIOS motherboards boot far quicker than "modern" UEFI ones.
That struck me, too.
> It explains what a virtual bus is like like 6 times in different ways
Without ever actually really nailing down what the term means for software.
https://news.mydrivers.com/1/1081/1081504.htm
As an example:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Break_of_gauge
Updates are not a sign of technical maturity. You don't change the door to your house every year.
Few weeks back they had HDMI/DisplayPort alternate standardized as well.
[0] https://rfd.shared.oxide.computer/rfd/0241
[1] https://www.osfc.io/2022/talks/i-have-come-to-bury-the-bios-...
That begs the question. What does the patrol scrubs of ECC memory on your hardware?
It’s one thing to make a new firmware for PCs…
But they really don’t care about Linux or Windows? Or do they expect each to cave and support their thing because they make the world’s crap?
They simply could have written their own UEFI implementation if they so desired…
This feels more like a flex to the rest of the world than anything useful.
They are both US products, subject to export controls.
Deepin/Uniontech UOS -- based on Debian.
It has its own desktop environment, DDE, available on some Western distros and pretty good.
Kylin/OpenKylin/Ubuntu Kylin -- based on Ubuntu.
Again, its own desktop, UKUI, also available on Ubuntu itself and a few other distros.
EulerOS/OpenEuler -- based on CentOS Linux, and one of only 2 distros to have held official UNIX™ certification.
The other being Inspur K/UX, also Chinese I think.