On Tue, 3 Sep 2024 13:26:45 -0700 Kent Borg <kentb...@borg.org> wrote:
> When I first poked my head down into EFI I was horrified: A whole > damn OS down there. (Why does everything need to be an OS‽‽) A number, in fact a litany of reasons. Starting with securing the boot process against attack. It also brings cross-architecture portability; a hugely superior partitioning system (GPT) and GUID-based partition IDs, together with 64-bit support allows booting from partitions >2TB; the ability to boot an OS from ramdisk which has been an enormously useful feature for me; the ability to multi-boot a system -- especially from SAN LUNs -- without having to play games with all of the respective boot loaders; and more. I'm not suggesting that UEFI is better than legacy PC BIOS. I'm just listing some aspects of UEFI that I have found to be more useful to me than their legacy counterparts. There are many ways in which UEFI has failed to deliver such as device driver portability between pre- execution environment and OS environments, Microsoft abusing secure boot in a attempt to lock out competition, Lenovo successfully using UEFI device signing to block third party hardware, and more. -- \m/ (--) \m/ _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.blu.org https://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
