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The Extensible Firmware Interface - an introduction

The Extensible Firmware Interface - an introduction

Posted Aug 15, 2011 9:21 UTC (Mon) by marcH (subscriber, #57642)
In reply to: The Extensible Firmware Interface - an introduction by giraffedata
Parent article: The Extensible Firmware Interface - an introduction

> One thing is clear: EFI needs a better name - a descriptive one. Extensible Firmware Interface sounds like a patent title. "Firmware" isn't a set of function - it's just an implementation technology.

In theory "EFI" is just the interface. Its implementations are abusively called EFI as well. That's not unusual.


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