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NTFS hasn't been widely adopted by firmware manufacturers either. I don't think firmware manufacturers want to spend time implementing support for even the NTF

• vetinari 5y ago
  NTFS was also undocumented, and whatever the ntfs-3g folks or others working on alternate implementation figured out, it was via reverse engineering.
  • Macha 5y ago
    Sure, but the manufacturers presumably play for licenses for the AMD AGESA, etc. so could pay for a NTFS license if they wanted to. And ext has plenty of documentation and they haven't implemented that either. So I think keeping down the software complexity is the more likely method. Down to 1. The limited software investment these companies make (often just buying and reskinning firmware from AMI) 2. The limited space available on the ROMs due to hardware cost savings (e.g. companies have had to drop GUIs or support for less popular APUs to add support for new generations of mainstream CPU in firmware updates)
• qwerty456127 5y ago
  > NTFS hasn't been widely adopted by firmware manufacturers either. Although very complex and very undocumented, NTFS has actually been adopted very widely and quite reliably. Most of the pre-smart TVs and set-top-boxes can read FAT and NTFS USB drives which makes NTFS the only choice if you want movies exceeding 4 GiBs.
  • AshamedCaptain 5y ago
    In fact NTFS is available on most commercial UEFI implementations. You can use NTFS to format your Windows install pendrive...