On Sat, Dec 31, 2022 at 4:11 PM Dan Cross <crossd@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> I'm going to push back on this slightly: UEFI+ACPI get a bad rap
> because, well, they're really pretty bad. Oh sure, some things are
> reasonable: the ACPI table formats aren't awful. But I've been inside
> a couple of these now and phew golly, they stink pretty badly.
>
Fair enough.   UEFI+ACPI started from BIOS and really should have been a
full re-think and write by senior OS people.

It was not.   The problem for us techies, is that doing that was not going
to save or make anyone $s.

The problem for management was they wanted to keep the old BIOS around
(that's what the customer wanted - cheapest path forward) and unless there
was a reason to break from tradition, they were not going too.   Apple
could (and did) but HP/Dell et al did not want too.
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