UEFI Secure Boot is disabled. The machine is a Macbook8,3 converted to a pure Linux box, however. So, the EFI firmware might be damaged. Thank you for the clarification.
In order to disable the (not properly supported) discrete graphics card, I need to execute the mentioned outb commands. Indeed, I edited /etc/grub.d/ 10_linux in order to do this.
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