AMD Agesa - what sort of critter is this?

Hi,

I just found a BIOS update to my MB (Asus M2N32). It lists support for Agesa
and I managed to find info that indicates this is about integrating some
sort of BIOS plug-in technology when developing new BIOS code - can anybody
here make a guess (educated or not) if this will be usefull to me or to my
machine?

I intend to flash it anyway since there is enhanced memory support as well,
I just don't like putting things in there that I don't know what it's there
for.


Tony. . .

Juergen
Tue Jun 05 06:46:08 CDT 2007

Hi,
might be support for the expected -and may be comming this weeks / months-
amd "agena" cpu.
there are allways some typos in nvda bioses
jk

Tony
Tue Jun 05 06:50:33 CDT 2007

Ha, you may be right - but in all fairness there where some references to
Agesa on i-net.


Tony. . .


"Juergen Kluth" <JKluth@t-online.de> wrote in message
news:ONi7cc2pHHA.4532@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> Hi,
> might be support for the expected -and may be comming this weeks / months-
> amd "agena" cpu.
> there are allways some typos in nvda bioses
> jk
>
>

Juergen
Wed Jun 06 15:54:50 CDT 2007

Hi again.
google ami bios agesa
jk

Tony
Wed Jun 06 16:21:32 CDT 2007

Thanks, that was more on target than what I had found, just one page of
hits - I'm somewhat wiser as to what it is, I stll cannot say if my machine
will benefit from it. And now I need to know what Aptio is. I think, I'll
drop Asus or someone a note and give them a chance to explain themselves -
Gee, I'm so nosy!


Tony. . .


"Juergen Kluth" <JKluth@t-online.de> wrote in message
news:e0%23MvzHqHHA.3512@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> Hi again.
> google ami bios agesa
> jk
>
>

Carlos
Thu Jun 07 18:58:00 CDT 2007

Tony:
From what I have read, APTIO is AMI's nickname for its EFI compatible system.
EFI is sorta become the replacement of current BIOSes.
BIOS is out, EFI is in.
Intel promotes EFI. Apple is the early adopter.
Carlos

"Tony Sperling" wrote:

> Thanks, that was more on target than what I had found, just one page of
> hits - I'm somewhat wiser as to what it is, I stll cannot say if my machine
> will benefit from it. And now I need to know what Aptio is. I think, I'll
> drop Asus or someone a note and give them a chance to explain themselves -
> Gee, I'm so nosy!
>
>
> Tony. . .
>
>
> "Juergen Kluth" <JKluth@t-online.de> wrote in message
> news:e0%23MvzHqHHA.3512@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> > Hi again.
> > google ami bios agesa
> > jk
> >
> >
>
>
>

Tony
Thu Jun 07 19:08:10 CDT 2007

Oh, that's interesting. It's been a while since I saw EFI being mentioned, I
half thought it was being phased out before anybody actually got to see what
it was all about. This will certainly warrant a bit of scrutinizing. Thanks
a lot, Carlos!


Tony. . .


"Carlos" <Carlos@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:717F75FB-370A-4FFE-BA8D-EC02F225ACC9@microsoft.com...
> Tony:
> From what I have read, APTIO is AMI's nickname for its EFI compatible
system.
> EFI is sorta become the replacement of current BIOSes.
> BIOS is out, EFI is in.
> Intel promotes EFI. Apple is the early adopter.
> Carlos
>
> "Tony Sperling" wrote:
>
> > Thanks, that was more on target than what I had found, just one page of
> > hits - I'm somewhat wiser as to what it is, I stll cannot say if my
machine
> > will benefit from it. And now I need to know what Aptio is. I think,
I'll
> > drop Asus or someone a note and give them a chance to explain
themselves -
> > Gee, I'm so nosy!
> >
> >
> > Tony. . .
> >
> >
> > "Juergen Kluth" <JKluth@t-online.de> wrote in message
> > news:e0%23MvzHqHHA.3512@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> > > Hi again.
> > > google ami bios agesa
> > > jk
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >

Carlos
Thu Jun 07 20:19:00 CDT 2007

You are welcome, "nightwalker" Tony!
Carlos

"Tony Sperling" wrote:

> Oh, that's interesting. It's been a while since I saw EFI being mentioned, I
> half thought it was being phased out before anybody actually got to see what
> it was all about. This will certainly warrant a bit of scrutinizing. Thanks
> a lot, Carlos!
>
>
> Tony. . .
>
>
> "Carlos" <Carlos@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:717F75FB-370A-4FFE-BA8D-EC02F225ACC9@microsoft.com...
> > Tony:
> > From what I have read, APTIO is AMI's nickname for its EFI compatible
> system.
> > EFI is sorta become the replacement of current BIOSes.
> > BIOS is out, EFI is in.
> > Intel promotes EFI. Apple is the early adopter.
> > Carlos
> >
> > "Tony Sperling" wrote:
> >
> > > Thanks, that was more on target than what I had found, just one page of
> > > hits - I'm somewhat wiser as to what it is, I stll cannot say if my
> machine
> > > will benefit from it. And now I need to know what Aptio is. I think,
> I'll
> > > drop Asus or someone a note and give them a chance to explain
> themselves -
> > > Gee, I'm so nosy!
> > >
> > >
> > > Tony. . .
> > >
> > >
> > > "Juergen Kluth" <JKluth@t-online.de> wrote in message
> > > news:e0%23MvzHqHHA.3512@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> > > > Hi again.
> > > > google ami bios agesa
> > > > jk
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
>
>
>