HFI proposes a familiar PC style route from power on to operating system Another month, another ambitious idea from Yuri Zaporozhets: a proposal for a standard PC style BIOS for RISC V computers. The Harmonic Firmware Initiative , or HFI for short, is simple and appealing in principle, but will be considerably harder to implement. From the project own description, it aims to provide a BIOS like experience, familiar from x86 PCs, for RISC V hardware. When the machine starts, the firmware would...

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