Recent content by mrussell

This is an old thread,but hopefully this will be useful to someone. This only applies to desktops. Laptops are a whole other matter. Some EFI seem to have the capability of opening an EFI shell via serial, at least in the source code. But I dont know how its done or if its only supported in...

I know this is old,but Ill add this so that others may find it. This function seems to be present in the AMI EFI code. The leaked source code has modules that seem to handle this. The production bioses seem to have code for it as well but it could well be :"left over". In other words,it could be...

No,its a huge overpriced android tablet. Looks great,until you try to use it for the only thing you can do on it,browse the web. (ok,you can play angry birds). When you try to browse the web,you will find that most force feed you the mobile version when they see an android user agent. On top of...

To do it,we need a bootloader. Heres my thought,coreboot essentially is a low level hardware initialization,that then loads a modified linux kernel,that completes hardware initialization,then loads a payload,such as a OpenBIOS or UEFI. So,the bootloader on a android tablet is in fact setup to...

THere could be an issue with latency. In a hard disk array,the latency for seek operations is several orders of magnitude greater than the latency in a SSD array. If the latency introduced by the RAID bios is on the order of the latency of the random reads in the SSD system,it could make things...