Linux: Linus On The Extensible Firmware Interface

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Jul 26, 2006 10:40 PM EDT
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A recent patch posted to the lkml contained the following description, "this patch adds an efi e820 memory mapping", in response to which Andrew Morton asked, "why?". Linus Torvalds offered his views on EFI, the Extensible Firmware Interface beginning by describing it as "this other Intel brain-damage (the first one being ACPI)".

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