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Even now UEFI bugs are still a serious problem. And it was not long after this was posted that IBM sold the PC division to Lenovo for example.
by yuhong 10y ago
Even now UEFI bugs are still a serious problem. And it was not long after this was posted that IBM sold the PC division to Lenovo for example.
- wtallis 10y agoSo? PC firmware bugs have been a serious problem at least as far back as the introduction of ACPI. (U)EFI vs BIOS doesn't seem to have made much difference.
- yuhong 10y agoBut there are things like UEFI variable bugs bricking systems.
- Sanddancer 10y agoEarlier than that, even. 100% PC compatibility used to be measured on if the PC itself could run Flight Simulator, because Flight Simulator made a lot of bios calls, etc, and a lot of early bioses were rather buggy. Those were also the fun days where updating your bios meant removing the chip and replacing it with a new one