A pair of UEFI updates [LWN.net]

A pair of UEFI updates

Posted Feb 3, 2013 5:23 UTC (Sun) by theophrastus (guest, #80847)
In reply to: A pair of UEFI updates by mjg59
Parent article: A pair of UEFI updates

Thank you both. (i think we always learn more watching a spirited discussion than if everyone just tediously agrees)

i lost track of LinuxBIOS and am glad to see that work on it continues. of course, i was thinking more of an unlikely... -patch- to remove, or jumper around, UEFI, instead of the full nuclear option; but that might be the only way in the final analysis. as long as hardware makers are willing manufacture to suit a narrow, (yet fat), market.

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A pair of UEFI updates

Posted Feb 3, 2013 11:22 UTC (Sun) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link]

You can not "jump around" UEFI because it's the only thing there is.

BIOS is emulated on top of UEFI, not the other way around. Which means that all the hardware is initialized in the UEFI.