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Fedora considers deprecating legacy BIOS

Fedora considers deprecating legacy BIOS

Posted Apr 21, 2022 10:27 UTC (Thu) by leoluk (guest, #97665)
In reply to: Fedora considers deprecating legacy BIOS by taladar
Parent article: Fedora considers deprecating legacy BIOS

Yes - there is a ton of ongoing work on EFI in projects like EDKII[1] and the various bootloaders and utilities. Things like TPM-backed attestation and Secure Boot require EFI. Meanwhile, Legacy BIOS is stagnant and only kept around for compatibility reasons.

[1]: https://github.com/tianocore/edk2


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