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Re:System76 Will Ship Linux Laptops With Coreboot-Based Open... by fulafel on Friday October 11, 2019 @02:45AM (#21222101)
ACPI also works this way, no?
Re:System76 Will Ship Linux Laptops With Coreboot-Based Open... by pgeorgi on Friday October 11, 2019 @08:38AM (#21223714)
Right, but ACPI has a standard (even if using the standard has onerous restrictions) and so firmware projects like coreboot can (and do) implement their own.

For AtomBIOS, you have a single vendor virtual machine environment (bytecode + semantics) describing whatever they need in a custom form. There's no other documentation for the things out there than AtomBIOS speciment, making reimplementation rather complex.