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SUMMARY:Beyond EFI - what is next for firmware and booting? - Simon Glass
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DESCRIPTION:We have Tianocore for PCs and U-Boot for embedded systems. Bot
 h of these support EFI and can boot common Linux distros. So are we done n
 ow\, with firmware and booting?\n\nIn fact we are just getting started on 
 the road to genuinely open firmware and boot. EFI was designed in the 1990
 s for a closed-source environment. It has resulted in growing intermediati
 on between firmware and the OS\, with lots of code and complexity which is
  not really useful in an open source world. The good news is that we have 
 a lot of the pieces in place to move to the next step.\n\nThis talk examin
 es the process of assembling firmware and booting an OS\, looking at how E
 FI handles these elements and the design decisions that led us here. It th
 en proposes a set of incremental improvements leading towards a more open\
 , straightforward and performant boot.\n\nIt ends with a demo contrasting 
 the status quo with this new approach\, including boot time\, code size an
 d security.
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URL:https://talks.osfc.io/osfc-2026/talk/PCYGKN/
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