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You're a bit behind the curve on this. EFI has been criticized for being horrendously complicated and gross since its inception.
by 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 agoObligatory 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 agoEven 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.