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by simoncion 3796 days ago
> Or, you make libraries that conform to the spec and have some "dirty" handling to work around holes left by crappy UEFI implementations.

It's a long-standing tradition to have workarounds in kernel modules for broken hardware.

Hopefully there is a sufficently-well-funded testing lab out there to get a complete list of UEFI implementations that are broken in this way so that the next rev of the uefifs module can properly refuse to do whatever it is that's bricking these dangerously broken motherboards.