Actually the BIOS was killed in 2007 and replaced with UEFI. People just are used to calling it the BIOS. And most of those things are covered - brands have the same UEFI interfaces among their products, generally. And OEM systems don’t matter because they are designed so users have very little control, and majority of OEM buyers never even venture into the UEFI. And UEFI is a pretty open standard.
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chilly zenith
chilly zenith
The framework is all there, it’s up to the vendors to do something with it.
lone lodge
calm steppe
would rather have a guideline of features that vendors need to include, such as the stuff to have the idle power consumption working which is on barely any boards bios
twilit lava
It is up to individual manufacturers to customize their firmware, @molten forge, just like motherboard manufacturers, video card manufacturers, automobile manufacturers, refrigerator manufacturers, etc., all tweak their different products to appeal to different market segments.
If you think there's something that should be mandatory in UEFI firmware, it would be better to bring it up with the trade association responsible for it: https://uefi.org/membership
cursive ravine
Check out tianocore and coreboot too