Booting to Rust

Re:Booting to Rust by forgottenpass on Tuesday November 19, 2013 @01:44PM (#6763371)

EFI even talks FAT and there exists licensing such that you can use FAT for EFI reasons without any patent worries. I'm not saying that's a bad decision, just pointing out it is another thing that happened.

I heard that fact in a linux.conf.au talk by the guy what did UEFI work for linux [0]. If you're sad to hear about the Microsoft influence, dude isn't too hot on the implementation of this new standard in general. Interesting talk though, digging up the link to post it here means I'm going to give it another watch.

[0] EFI and Linux: the future is here, and it's awful - Matthew Garrett http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2aq5M3Q76U

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Re:Booting to Rust by Aloisius on Tuesday November 19, 2013 @02:45PM (#6763858)

EFI even talks FAT and there exists licensing such that you can use FAT for EFI reasons without any patent worries.

Surely all the patents on FAT have expired by now regardless. Even FAT32 was introduced 17 years ago.

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Re:Booting to Rust by daurnimator on Wednesday November 20, 2013 @05:17AM (#6767224)

Thanks for the reminder about that talk; I was actually in the audience for it :)

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