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by yjftsjthsd-h 815 days ago
The really annoying thing is that we're so close to doing better - openfirmware is decades old, and if we must throw that away UEFI is in fact portable; we could have UEFI ARM machines with nice normal busses that the OS can enumerate and boot just like x86. But, y'know, that would cost another 10 cents a board so we get to live with the current trash. (I mean, this is even a thing that we do use to boot VMs and Windows on ARM, and AIUI ex. https://libre.computer/ does use UEFI firmware, the adoption is just super limited)