Hopefully this will spur more research and visibility and unfortunately active exploits, but that would finally put pressure on oems to secure their firmwares. Or break up the damn covert cabal that’s the 3 major bios producers
I'll take that anyday over that slow as hell mouse driven firmware horror Dell and HP have been producing for their servers and laptops.
It also means you can bypass the mouse driven monstrosities from at least Dell by booting with console on serial port (for example through IPMI) - and all the same options are available, in vt-100 compatible form.
What relief after finding a server where the base bios was fine, but the intel raid card had its own SVGA+PS/2 mouse requiring setup interface... The mad scramble for a mouse to add to crash cart...
I'm curious about that - why isn't there more competition, especially when everything you need to do it without them is easily available online? Like, not just specs, all the actual code you'd need is open source and AIUI friendly to use. Frankly, why aren't most motherboards shipping with lightly-patched coreboot+edk2?
Because like most consumer PC parts, it's a race to the bottom low margin low wage business, usually offshored to Asia, that's only remotely profitable for the top 2-3 players who captured the market and optimized the costs, processes, development and supply chain to the max.
Why would anyone else want to enter such a market to compete for even lower profits?