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[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I wonder what the newest PC motherboard with the BIOS ROM in a socketed DIP chip is.

At least a decade old, if not more than.

If you wanted to swap your vendor EFI image to something else, at this point it's all going to be via a SPI programmer, and if you own one of the two boards that it supports, coreboot/openboot.

But, essentially, you can't swap because there's very little supported hardware, and thus are stuck with your vendor proprietary EFI.

What's hilarious, I guess? is that the EFI setup is more or less it's own OS that can then chainboot an OS which is how the mid90s workstations (Sun, SGI, HP, etc.) worked.