• wewbull@feddit.uk
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    5 days 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.

    Edit: For example, here’s the RISC-V UEFI specification.

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      5 days ago

      Control is the most important thing to the CCP so it makes complete sense from their perspective. We would be free to buy into it but they would definitely force it on devices within China.