I still honestly don't understand why (U)EFI was created. Something minimal like coreboot would surely have been better. Maybe coreboot didn't exist in its actual design when Intel started developing EFI (IIRC it was about stuffing Linux in the Flashrom back then), but surely they knew about openfirmware?
Was there anything so horribly wrong with OF that they needed to recreate it?
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Not getting it.
Date: 2011-06-08 07:54 pm (UTC)Was there anything so horribly wrong with OF that they needed to recreate it?