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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