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Originally Posted by HarryT
If it's true, though, that Skylake motherboards have a different method of talking to USB devices, wouldn't that mean that older distributions of any o/s couldn't talk to USB devices on such a motherboard? That would mean no keyboard, no mouse, etc. Kind of hard to upgrade anything if you can't communicate with the o/s.
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No, the bios provides that hardware level communication. The interface to Windows is through the bios. That's the whole point of the bios to make the O/S hardware independent by presenting a standard interface to the O/S.
Now if the Bios interface has been changed in a non-backwards compatible way, that's a different story.