| |||||||||||||
The Extensible Firmware Interface - an introductionThe Extensible Firmware Interface - an introductionPosted Aug 12, 2011 8:09 UTC (Fri) by marcH (subscriber, #57642)In reply to: The Extensible Firmware Interface - an introduction by etienne Parent article: The Extensible Firmware Interface - an introduction
> If the BIOS is really setting a minimum OS, it needs to initialise all the managed devices
EFI is designed to initialize the minimum amount of hardware required to run the bootloader. Now I am not familiar enough with various hardware configurations to know if this will be faster than old BIOSes in *every* case but I am pretty sure it will be in most.
(Log in to post comments)
|
|||||||||||||