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I'm begin to think that EFI is a very wrong turn way on modern computers.

• Sir_Cmpwn 10y ago
  You're a bit behind the curve on this. EFI has been criticized for being horrendously complicated and gross since its inception.
  • semi-extrinsic 10y ago
    Obligatory Matthew Garrett quote from a Linux kernel EFI patch in 2011: UEFI stands for "Unified Extensible Firmware Interface", where "Firmware" is an ancient African word meaning "Why do something right when you can do it so wrong that children will weep and brave adults will cower before you", and "UEI" is Celtic for "We missed DOS so we burned it into your ROMs". https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/5/25/228 https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/5/25/228
    • yuhong 10y ago
      Even on servers, I noticed that HP (now HPE) began locking access to server UEFI updates soon after http://lkml.org/lkml/2013/11/11/653 http://lkml.org/lkml/2013/11/11/653 was posted.
• digi_owl 10y ago
  The PC platform as a whole is going through a severe case of "second system effect".
  • yuhong 10y ago
    Even back in the 1990s, there was ACPI. ACPI 1.0 for example dates back to the end of 1996 (of course before then there was drafts): http://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI_1.pdf http://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI_1.pdf But of course ACPI took years to catch on, during which low cost PCs from for example eMachines was coming.
    • digi_owl 10y ago
      I seem to recall Torvalds having some less than kind words about ACPI.
      • yuhong 10y ago
        I know. In fact, there is a reason I wonder what would have happened if Intel bought Compaq back in 1991 with Rod Canion and Jim Harris staying on.