On Tue, Feb 02, 2016 at 10:07:17AM -0500, Steve Litt wrote: > Back in the BIOS/MBR days, we had a very thin, very tiny interface to > the pre-boot stuff. About the only way you could mess it up was to blow > a bios upgrade, so you were always *very* careful during that process. > But in every other respect with BIOS/MBR, nothing you could do in > software could damage your hardware. > > BIOS/MBR had a very thin interface. > > Now comes UEFI, with this huge interface, to its pre-boot firmware and > non-volatile RAM, intended to be accessed by run of the mill > application programs and even commands typed in at the command prompt. > How is this exposure of many different "EFI variables" to every > possible software on the system different from systemd's spaghetti web > of dependencies? > > Answer: It's not. It's one more case of abdication of modularity.
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