Ubios: China's Alternative to Uefi

I’d honestly would like to read bcantrill’s opinion on this

This seems utterly bizarre.

It’s one thing to make a new firmware for PCs…

But they really don’t care about Linux or Windows? Or do they expect each to cave and support their thing because they make the world’s crap?

They simply could have written their own UEFI implementation if they so desired…

This feels more like a flex to the rest of the world than anything useful.

This article feels super AI written. It explains what a virtual bus is like like 6 times in different ways

"UBIOS will be further discussed and revealed by the Global Computing Consortium at the 2025 Global Computing Conference in Shenzhen this November. For a country looking to both bolster its own domestic computing ecosystem and step away from American systems that constrict non-standard hardware implementations, the development of UBIOS may prove to be a major win for China. However, whether UBIOS becomes widely adopted and championed like the open standard RISC-V, or widely abandoned like LoongArch, remains to be seen."

https://news.mydrivers.com/1/1081/1081504.htm

> Technical Maturity: The UEFI Forum updated all three of its core specifications (ACPI, UEFI, and PI) as recently as December 2024.

Updates are not a sign of technical maturity. You don't change the door to your house every year.

> UEFI provides advantages including faster boot times through parallel hardware initialization

My older BIOS motherboards boot far quicker than "modern" UEFI ones.

More competetion always welcome.

Few weeks back they had HDMI/DisplayPort alternate standardized as well.

6 months later, researchers found that this was sending data back home and had hardcoded security keys

> As the United States has cut China off from advanced semiconductor technology, tightened controls on Chinese investments in U.S. firms, and scrutinized the flow of Chinese students and scholars to American universities, Beijing has stressed the need for indigenous innovation and to seize control of core technologies.

Sounds pretty self-defeating.

But can it also run a full IP stack? [Rhetorical]