The Extensible Firmware Interface vs early Linux

Posted Aug 22, 2011 22:35 UTC (Mon) by marcH (subscriber, #57642)
In reply to: The Extensible Firmware Interface vs early Linux by giraffedata
Parent article: The Extensible Firmware Interface - an introduction

> I think you're pointing out the dilemma of standardization.

Yes something like that.

> you've misunderstood the proposal, because customers can still use all of those boot protocols -- the ROM loads from the USB device the bootloader that knows how to load Windows from a SATA drive.

I think I understood the proposal; it looks like we have different customers in mind. I am considering the "ROM loads from X" part while you are considering the "bootloader that knows..." part.