Modern OS/2 distribution ArcaOS adds support for booting via UEFI

ArcaOS, an updated version of IBM OS/2, is adding experimental support for booting via UEFI as Intel is phasing out the legacy BIOS interface in 2020.

OS/2?which was, at one time, IBM's competitor to Windows?continues to enjoy an extended afterlife, following the end of principal development in 1996. In 2015, Arca Noae announced a new, licensed distribution of OS/2?bundling new software and device drivers written for OS/2 with a new installer?with initial release in 2017 as ArcaOS 5.0 "Blue Lion." 

Maintaining a decades-old operating system presents a variety of development problems far outside the mainstream, with solutions for those problems requiring a great deal of creativity to not break compatibility with existing drivers or programs. One of the most pressing issues facing OS/2 is the impending removal of the legacy BIOS Compatibility Support Module (CSM) starting in January 2020.

Compared to DOS, which extensively utilizes BIOS functionality, OS/2 has hard dependencies on only a subset of BIOS features, according to Arca Noae developer Alex Taylor, in a presentation at Warpstock Europe, posted to YouTube this week. The BIOS-supplied INT10 and INT13?VGA hardware and disk I/O via BIOS, respectively?are needed to boot ArcaOS

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