Re: [PLUG] Booting, UEFI, BIOS

[PaulNM <plug@paulscrap.com>]

On 07/09/2017 09:28 PM, brent timothy saner wrote:
> i definitely have to echo rich's sentiments, here. UEFI isn't the evil
> monster a lot of people make it out to be. sure, it's not perfect, but
> it definitely addresses a lot of issues that BIOS had (and i find it
> incredibly easier to maintain/manage).

Much of the "evil" reputation comes from secure boot rather than UEFI 
generally. In particular, fears of vendors not allowing you to specify 
your own keys or turn secure boot off.

Microsoft tried to placate those fears by mandating OEMs allow that in 
order to sell systems with Windows 8.1. People at the time pointed out 
that it didn't apply to arm systems (those actually mandated 
dis-allowing different keys or disabling secure boot), and that could 
change in the future. They were right, MS no longer mandates it with Win 10.

UEFI actually simplifies many things, by removing a bunch of cruft that 
BIOS used to handle. For years OS's have had work-arounds for 
initializing hardware and/or ignoring the BIOS completely for stuff.

-- PaulNM
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