UEFI - ExitBootServices

kzinti · **Joined:** Mon Feb 02, 2015 7:11 pm **Posts:** 898

nexos wrote:

UEFI is very new.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface wrote:

The original motivation for EFI came during early development of the first Intel–HP Itanium systems in the mid-1990s.
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In July 2005, Intel ceased its development of the EFI specification at version 1.10, and contributed it to the Unified EFI Forum
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The first open source UEFI implementation, Tiano, was released by Intel in 2004.
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Version 2.0 of the UEFI specification was released on 31 January 2006.

Doesn't look "very new" to me.

nexos · **Joined:** Tue Feb 18, 2020 3:29 pm **Posts:** 1071

True, but it started being adopted back in 2012 IIRC. Even 15 years isn't as long as the 40 years BIOS has been out, so more info on BIOS is available for sure.

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