Posted on Friday, November 17 2017 @ 11:52 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
In an effort to remove legacy features in its processors and platforms, Intel is going to remove the legacy BIOS compatibility mode from its products in 2020. Intel developer evangelist Brian Richardson
told the audience (PDF) at the Fall 2017 UEFI Plugfest in Taiwan that future Intel client and datacenter platforms will exclusively support UEFI Class 3.
This move will break any customer process that demands on disabling UEFI, there will no longer be any support for 16-bit operating systems. Additionally, it will no longer be possible to circumvent Secure Boot, and the policy could cause issues with the installation of non-Windows operating systems as many Linux distributions still lack Secure Boot support.
Via: Tweakers