Why “UEFI” is being discussed
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If you used a standard UEFI interface you'd either imprison the OS within the UEFI using UEFI interfaces to hardware, or you'd imprison it within an inaccurate hardware descript…
by cowlevel · Oct 28, 2026
We are in agreement that phones (and embedded devices in general) are worse. My claim is that they are worse because UEFI is too fucking complicated to implement, so nobody both…
by za_creature · Oct 28, 2026
Yeah, and booting the raspberry pi is done via the GPU. What was that you were saying about shitty vendors? USB is a value-added feature (with a spec that rivals UEFI in complex…
by za_creature · Oct 28, 2026
I said "and capable of booting arbitrary target operating systems" for a reason. Linux can kexec itself and I believe modded (but not mainline) FreeBSD. UEFI is rather more gene…
by yjftsjthsd-h · Oct 28, 2026
> Everything else should probably be left to whatever is running at the initialization vector of the storage. Which, if you'd like, can be a complete UEFI implementation. Puttin…
by yjftsjthsd-h · Oct 28, 2026
Look, it's a step in the right direction for sure. It's just too big of a leap for my taste. To boot an OS you need to initialize core 0, RAM and some storage controller. Throw…
by za_creature · Oct 28, 2026
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Unified Extensible Firmware Interface or UEFI is a specification for the firmware architecture of a computing platform. When a computer is powered on, the UEFI implementation typically runs first, before the operating system or any other program is loaded. Examples include AMI Aptio, Phoenix SecureCore, TianoCore EDK II, and InsydeH2O. Read more on Wikipedia