Was there anything so horribly wrong with OF that they needed to recreate it?
I actually had an Intel EFI architect tell me - to my face - that they invented EFI because there wasn't anything that already existed to reuse. Later, in the same talk, he said he'd seen EFI implementations that wrap OpenFirmware.
The conclusion I drew from this was that the thing wrong with OpenFirmware was that Intel hadn't written it; either that someone needed to justify their existence, or that they have some deeper cultural NIH reason why they had to not use OF. So, either malice or incompetence, and I don't really care which. It's a complete clusterfuck.
Re: Not getting it.
I actually had an Intel EFI architect tell me - to my face - that they invented EFI because there wasn't anything that already existed to reuse. Later, in the same talk, he said he'd seen EFI implementations that wrap OpenFirmware.
The conclusion I drew from this was that the thing wrong with OpenFirmware was that Intel hadn't written it; either that someone needed to justify their existence, or that they have some deeper cultural NIH reason why they had to not use OF. So, either malice or incompetence, and I don't really care which. It's a complete clusterfuck.