China releases 'UBIOS' standard to replace UEFI — Huawei-backed BIOS firmware replacement charges China's domestic computing goals

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• oce@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Does that mean I will have more choice in which surveillance agency I want to be spied by?

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  • salacious_coaster@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Maybe not, if Intel goes tits-up

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    • avidamoeba@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Ouch.

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  • UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    UEFI is a standard, not a product. You could make your own even

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    • the_boxhead@sh.itjust.works ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      libreboot.org

      Or use this…

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    • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      could

      could in the same sense that i could check all software i use for bugs and malicious code. realistically, i can’t, because it’s way too much work.

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    • stupidcasey@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      So that just means UBIOS is explicitly for spying since UEFI is open source and a standard right?

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• gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Our hardware has its own problems.

  We rely way too much on x86 and ia64 architecture, both of which have only two big manufacturers in the world. That’s not good because it’s almost monopolies.

  It would be better to have simpler chipsets that can be produced by more manufacturers worldwide, and especially ones that can be produced by smaller regional manufacturers.

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  • certified_expert@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    RISC-V

    • royalty free
    • future-proof
    • extensible
    • base ISA is 40 instructions!
    • beautifully documented
    • can perform in a range of situations, from embedded to many-cores servers!
    • can handle petabytes of memory (the higher schemes)
    • no nonsense historic compatibility drag.

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  • fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    RISC-V is this

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  • nyan@lemmy.cafe ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    On top of that we shouldn’t distribute compiled binaries for the x86 and ia64 chipsets; instead program code should be distributed like .wasm, in a hardware-independent way, and compiled on the target device. That would enable that hardware can use any chipset it wants and there are no software incompatibilities because of it.

    You’re describing Gentoo Linux . . . which is not especially popular among Linux distributions even though it runs on just about anything. There may be a reason for that.

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    • krooklochurm@lemmy.ca ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Well, they’re talking about something lower level than the operating system. For one.

      Secondly, every distributor is inferior to the only perfect thing mankind has ever created: Hannah Montana Linux. If you’re using anything else you may as well just break your computer and drink cyanide.

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  • uairhahs@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Those are called duopolies (yes it’s a very common thing)

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  • melfie@lemy.lol ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I have been waiting impatiently for WASM to really take off. I’d imagine that some day, it will be the most popular way to build software.

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    • embed_me@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      But isn’t WASM for web browsers? How will it be used to build general software

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  • Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    How is performance though?

    And honestly ARM isn’t that much than x86 in terms of freedom and competition.

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• daggermoon@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Do we really need a UEFI replacement?

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  • CosmoNova@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Probably not. At least not right now. Bit China needs one apparently.

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    • wewbull@feddit.uk ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      My thoughts are “Why do they need one?”. It’s not like UEFI stops you doing anything.

      UBIOS’s unique features over UEFI include increased support for chiplets and other heterogeneous computing use-cases, such as multi-CPU motherboards with mismatching CPUs, something UEFI struggles with or does not support. It will also better support non-x86 CPU architectures such as ARM, RISC-V, and LoongArch, the first major Chinese operating system.

      [citation needed]

      I would say this is about increasing the level of control of the platform, not about technological issues.

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  • DarkAri@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah we should replace it with legacy bios.

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  • monogram@feddit.nl ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    For x86 or ARM?

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