[Tfug] Alan Cox: "I've had enough"--what else is new?

[Matthew T. Eskes]

On Sun, 2009-08-02 at 01:18 -0700, Bowie J. Poag wrote:
> > Sigh...
> >
> > Look, worst case couldn't something look directly at firmware memory
> > locations..."old school" style?
> >   
> Jim... You're missing the boat entirely here.
> 
> The EFI layer is the end of the road of inquiry for the kernel. There is 
> nothing else beyond, beside it, or behind it to read. The EFI can 
> contain actual Apple firmware, or simply contain generic firmware that 
> has it's bits tickled in the right places so as to be OS X-friendly. Any 
> OS-level or kernel-level inquiry into the low-level details of the box 
> has nowhere else to go.
> 
> (Interestingly, newer PCs are also increasingly EFI-based. The laptop 
> i'm using right now does not have a physical BIOS. It has an Insyde H2O 
> EFI with x86 BIOS emulation.)
> 
> 
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Bowie, IRONY! YOU HAVE AN HP TO!?!?!?! :P

Any suggestions for a good EFI terminal editor?