Bottomley: Owning your Windows 8 UEFI Platform
Bottomley: Owning your Windows 8 UEFI Platform
Posted Feb 19, 2013 18:43 UTC (Tue) by khim (subscriber, #9252)In reply to: Bottomley: Owning your Windows 8 UEFI Platform by drag
Parent article: Bottomley: Owning your Windows 8 UEFI Platform
It's a massive increase in complexity with no payoff other then having a facier GUI for configuring your boot devices.
The other payoff is the ability to use latest and greatest Intel's CPUs. You can say a lot of "shoulda coulda woulda" words, but in the end the situation is very simple: if you want to use modern CPU then you need to use multimegabyte binary-only EFI modules provided by Intel. There are no alternative: either you use them or you don't get to play with shiny new CPUs.
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