I guess it means that the hardware will be unusable *in UEFI*. Most operating system do not use UEFI call for general hardware use, just as they do not use BIOS calls either. DOS uses BIOS calls, Linux does not.
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Re: Hardware inside the EFI environment
Date: 2011-09-21 10:18 am (UTC)