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Re:The BadBIOS Analysis is Wrong by discardorama on Friday November 01, 2013 @08:08PM (#6657453)
> How much memory do you think you need per exploit if you have a carefully coded C program that uses system libraries?

.... except, at the BIOS level, there aren't many "system libraries". It's basically bare metal.

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Re:The BadBIOS Analysis is Wrong by bigiain on Saturday November 02, 2013 @04:10AM (#6658524)
For a different perspective, and Arduino (Uno) has 32kb of available RAM (minus a tiny bot used by the bootloader).

There's a tremendous amount of projects demonstrating amazing things that can be done with much less computing resources available than a BIOS. I have _very_ little doubt that bit-twiddled 12-20kHz audio communication could easily be implemented in under 10% of the 383kB that seems to be available. (Assuming the speaker and microphone are available as GPIO-like interfaces to the BIOS/CPU.)

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Re:The BadBIOS Analysis is Wrong by pgeorgi on Saturday November 02, 2013 @03:28AM (#6658464)
Except that UEFI has "system libraries" (among others for IPv4/v6 networking) that can be used after an OpenProtocol call.

In the future, AMI might add some OpenGL interfaces, too (see http://www.uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/8_-_UEFI_S...)

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