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ARM64 is moving more and more toward UEFI as well.
by messe 4y ago
ARM64 is moving more and more toward UEFI as well.
- gjsman-1000 4y agoUEFI is a mess, admittedly, with a large attack surface, bad API surface, DOS-like command syntax, it's all pretty bad. However, it's not as bad as the total free-for-all that booting most Android or ARM devices is. They're like a box of chocolates - you never know what you're going to get. Standardization, even if the standard is poor, is much better in this case than no standard.
- panick21_ 4y agoUEFI is just huge. As long as there is a standard for UEFI Interfaces you can only use a small subset of the API and avoid everything else. Basically you use minimal UEFI and then just jump into Linuxboot and implement everything else there.
- MisterTea 4y ago>Standardization, even if the standard is poor, is much better in this case than no standard. Have you heard of Coreboot? UEFI isn't the only game in town but it happens to be the only game that boots modern Microsoft products. MS is a technological burden that needs to go away.
- snvzz 4y agoCoreboot would overlap, role-wise, with SBI. UEFI (like Tianocore) is just payload from coreboot pov.
- ncmncm 4y agoSeems like they could have specified that only the "good parts" of UEFI are required. I.e., the minimal, simplest part actually used. After all, on x86,that is the only part that can actually be counted on to work. The rest is shovelware.