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Re:AMD PSB Vendor Locks EPYC CPUs for Enhanced Security at a... by freeone3000 on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @01:27AM (#24417480)
One of the cloud vendors created UEFI.
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Re:AMD PSB Vendor Locks EPYC CPUs for Enhanced Security at a... by boring_twenties on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @01:29AM (#24417493)
Then they know full well how bad it is!

*Jokes aside, I think Intel created UEFI (for Itanium?), not Microsoft?

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Re:AMD PSB Vendor Locks EPYC CPUs for Enhanced Security at a... by freeone3000 on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @10:35AM (#24421455)
The consortium has AMD, Intel, and Microsoft listed as contributors, so even if they didn't initially create the thing, they had a hand in it. The executable format used for UEFI is PE, which is telling.
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