News New Intel Feature Allows Updating Motherboard UEFI Without a Reboot

[Admin]

Intel will enable systems to up their firmware, like UEFI, without rebooting, thus minimizing system downtime.

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[hotaru.hino]

Honestly this should've been standard feature 15 years ago.

 

[Howardohyea]

Definitely a server grade stuff, rebooting isn't that difficult on a laptop/desktop but it's also insanely long for a server. A whole datacenter takes a few hours to boot since there's tons of data to shift though and get it up and running, so the less reboots the better.

This is also why there's hot swappable parts like hard drives for servers, the more hot swappable stuff there is the better

 

[SyCoREAPER]

I'd imagine this would cut down on a certain amount of risk as well in the event of errors writing the new firmware (even of rare). Definitely make it easier for the less tech savy