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So here we have security vulnerabilities in an open source UEFI implementation, resulting in a thread about how UEFI is too complex. So your solution... is to use the actual Linux kernel plus some glue code as your boot firmware? I love Linux, but it is neither simple nor free of security vulnerabilities; what exactly does this buy us?

Edit: On reading another reply, I see your argument for having fewer implementations; that's not nothing, but it only really helps if everything is on Linux, which isn't going to help most desktops (and I hope we can agree that NT in firmware is not better) or the rest of the world that isn't on Linux (say, the BSDs).



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