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The original EFI spec very much did extend that abstraction. You can do a lot in an EFI environment if the hardware plays ball: network, disk, video etc UEFI,
by hapless 6y ago
The original EFI spec very much did extend that abstraction. You can do a lot in an EFI environment if the hardware plays ball: network, disk, video etc
UEFI, sadly, added support for raw x86 option ROMs, to some extent casting us back into the "old" world.