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Duplicating EFI functionality is a waste of time

Duplicating EFI functionality is a waste of time

Posted Jul 10, 2012 3:12 UTC (Tue) by mjg59 (subscriber, #23239)
In reply to: Duplicating EFI functionality is a waste of time by raven667
Parent article: The FSF's advice to distributors on UEFI secure boot

Given that even Microsoft use a full-featured EFI bootloader I have no faith whatsoever in our ability to get every vendor to adopt a common level of UI competence.


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Duplicating EFI functionality is a waste of time

Posted Jul 10, 2012 4:21 UTC (Tue) by raven667 (subscriber, #5198) [Link]

The whole thing seems like a missed opportunity then as we are going to be stuck with EFI for at least the next 20 years.

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