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by mkup 1754 days ago
Oh no, I prefer BIOS/UEFI firmware to be as lean as possible, like, "boot my OS and get out of the way as quickly as possible" (because all software has bugs, larger software has more bugs, and fixing/updating firmware is a gross PITA, I mean inability to roll back and risk of bricking the hardware e.g. due to power loss). At least in Linux I can apply kernel patches individually, and in Windows I can replace a file here and there, but firmware is a monolith, so it is a "hit or miss" kind of thing. More complexity in firmware rapidly shifts this wholistic thing to "permanent miss" state.