On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 7:31 AM, Steve McIntyre <st...@einval.com> wrote: > f...@areyouforthepeople.org wrote: >> >>Hello: >> >>2 things: >> >>a. Even given all of their recent "damage" to themselves, >>how does Libreboot play into this? Is there a guide with respect to >>Debian that people can use to go the Libreboot route -- supported >>by this list? > > Pass. > >>b. This UEFI crap - and Microsoft/Intel trying to lock everything to >>themselves crap is crappy. >> >>Has anyone gathered all of these UEFI steps and good workarounds into >>One place that people can follow? > > UEFI as a design is fine,
If the option is nothing or UEFI, I'm still not sure which I'd take. For a decent processor, I think I'd actually prefer raw hardware, but such a decent processor doesn't exist. Nor do the I/O devices I'd be able to attach to it. Different people have different ideas of what they want, I guess. (Shoot, I even have different ideas of what I want. ;-/ ) > but there are a lot of crappy > implementations out there. Just like there are lots of crappy > BIOSes. :-( > > For more information about UEFI and Debian, I wrote a long wiki page > at > > https://wiki.debian.org/UEFI Thanks. Looks useful. > Please check that out, and please ask if anything's not clear. > > -- > Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com > Is there anybody out there? Nobody out here but us chickens. -- Joel Rees I'm imagining I'm a computer scientist. http://defining-computers.blogspot.com/2017/04/model-boot-up-process-description-with.html