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“On disk” really downplays the amount of code required to implement drivers for loading off USB, SATA, NVMe, etc.
by seoaeu 4y ago
“On disk” really downplays the amount of code required to implement drivers for loading off USB, SATA, NVMe, etc.
- phendrenad2 4y agoMy toyota prius is an insanely complex machine, and yet all it has to do is go forward when I press the accelerator. A UEFI-style over-engineered solution would require me to iterate over AcceleratorProviderProtocols in case someone implemented an acceleration pedal that works differently.
- tenebrisalietum 4y agoU-Boot seems to do the same and is a lot simpler than UEFI.
- seoaeu 4y agoU-Boot is over 2 million lines of code. I don’t know off hand exactly what functionality that does and doesn’t include, but I think it is fair to argue that neither one is especially simple