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>the messy parts of the UEFI ecosystem The jokes practically write themselves.

• snek 7y ago
  I'm looking forward to the "UEFI: The Good Parts" O'Reilly book.
  • pgeorgi 7y ago
    s,book,leaflet,
    • sam_bristow 7y ago
      Just a front and back cover and one page: [ this page intentionally left blank ]
      • MisterTea 7y ago
        Reminds me of the emacs man page in plan 9: http://man.cat-v.org/plan_9/1/emacs http://man.cat-v.org/plan_9/1/emacs
    • checktheorder 7y ago
      "Do you have anything light?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxqjsyfbcd4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxqjsyfbcd4
• userbinator 7y ago
  Indeed. BIOS isn't perfect but it's small and simple and provides enough to boot an OS, whereas UEFI looks more like an attempt to create another OS to run before the main one. It's a great example of design-by-committee and second-system-syndrome. Linus' rants on this topic are always worth a read: https://yarchive.net/comp/linux/efi.html https://yarchive.net/comp/linux/efi.html
  • daurnimator 7y ago
    See also Mathew Garrett's rant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2aq5M3Q76U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2aq5M3Q76U
    • checktheorder 7y ago
      That was actually quite informative, thanks for the link.