Re:LinuxBoot: Linux as Firmware
by johncolanduoni on Monday January 29, 2018 @08:00PM
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The person I was responding to was claiming UEFI was restricting their choices and had "introduced" problems. I don't really see what OpenFirmware, libreboot, etc. has to do with this. I didn't say UEFI was the best boot system ever envisioned (I definitely think they could have done better) but claiming it's some anti-consumer conspiracy in a way PC BIOS wasn't makes no sense.
Re:LinuxBoot: Linux as Firmware
by chriswarbo on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @06:55AM
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For what it's worth, I agree with the parent. IMO Microsoft's strong-arming around "SecureBoot" is enough to distrust everything to do with EFI.
I had a PC with a BIOS once. It didn't seem as slick as the Kickstart I'd used for the previous decase on my Amigas. It was also much less configurable/programmable than the OpenFirmware that came on my subsequent PC. My current machine uses libreboot, which is fine but I much prefer OpenFirmware.
tl;dr "BIOS vs EFI" is a false dichotomy, and "it's better than BIOS" is pretty weak praise for a boot system.