For some time Fedora releases have supported UEFI (more commonly known as EFI) booting on X86-64 platforms. Having some experience of using EFI on IA64 platforms over the years, I decided to test out EFI booting Fedora 12 on one of my systems has built-in support for UEFI booting. This post details my experience.
UEFI is a follow on to the original EFI specification developed by Intel in the late 1990s. Until recently, UEFI was restricted to high-end servers but is now becoming more commonplace on commodity servers and desktops. Fedora 12 can be booted using UEFI. In this post, I describe how to access and list the UEFI globally defined variables that Fedora 12 is aware of.
The aim of the Plymouth project is to answer the oft-stated user requirement that their computer startup be flicker-free, seamless, shiny and logged. In this post I examine the current state of the project and show you how to customize your startup and shutdown experience.
IA-PC HPET (High Precision Event Timer) is a specification which was jointly developed by Intel and Microsoft in the early part of this decade.. The latest version is dated October 2004. It’s stated purpose is to
initially supplement and eventually replace the legacy 8254 Programmable Interval Timer and the Real Time Clock Periodic Interrupt generation [...]
I am experimenting with XAM (eXtensible Access Method), which is a storage standard developed by SNIA (Storage Networking Industry Association and have developed a first prototype of a VIM (Vendor Interface Module) for the ext4 file system based on adding another namespace to the current extended file attributes support. Since other Linux developers might be [...]