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[–] 172 points 1 day ago (10 children)

I would disagree. The idea is great; eliminate preboot malware by trusting the whole boot stack. It has a place in computing and I would like to see it be something easier to work with.

Pretty much everything about how it's currently implemented is a mistake, I'll agree with.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    More like who is implementing it. Take MS out of the picture and set it as an open standard.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    It is open, oddly enough. It's just that nobody ships anything other than Microsoft's keys. You can add your own. It's just that it is a tedious, manual process.

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  • [–] 37 points 1 day ago (6 children)

    Microsoft has unofficial support for ext4 for their EFI partitions on their azure cloud, which in itself is a violation of their standard.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 day ago (5 children)

    UEFI doesn't forbid you from implementing additional file systems, it just requires everyone to support UEFI-FAT. iBoot for example supports booting from HFS volumes.

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  • [–] 1 point 16 hours ago (4 children)

    And who has that implementation?

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  • [–] 2 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

    iBoot is the bootloader on all Apple products.

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    You are free to implement any filesystem driver, and either load it in your custom implementation of EFI, or from an EFI image stored on a FAT partition. The EfiFs project provides many drivers under a GPL, including exFAT, Btrfs, ext2-4, NTFS, ISO9660 (cdfs), ZFS and also HFS(+).

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