Johannes Erdfelt wrote:
> >
> > ... and until they do, they are mostly a curiousity. If EFI turns
> > ubiquitous, then we can see if we can use it to clean up booting. For
> > now, it's a non-issue.
>
> You need to actually push something before it becomes accepted.
>
> Thankfully, this does not have to be ubiquitous before starting to
> support it.
>
It does before there is any point to it.
>
> EFI is much more than something as trivial as serial console support.
> In fact, it won't even help you with serial console support before it
> loads, like in the BIOS setup or something similar. That's not what it
> was really designed for. Check the docs.
>
> That being said, anyone can install EFI onto their system, regardless if
> it came that way from the vendor. In fact, you want something now? Grab
> the sample implementation, compile it and install. I haven't tried this
> myself, but Intel says it's possible.
>
The point is that noone that matters (PC vendors) care, so you're not
going to see it.
>
> Anyway, I still don't see the reason for sinking resources into the
> legacy boot loaders (LILO, Syslinux, etc) while there is a perfectly
> reasonable alternative which is here today.
>
It's not here today in any kind of usable form, meaning I can walk up to
J. Random PC and boot it using EFI. It's a paper spec.
-hpa
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