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		bpye on Oct 9, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I have come to bury the BIOS, not to open it [vide... > architecture-independent bytecode-based option ROM drivers on expansion cards. UEFI still has this doesn't it? EFI byte code [0]. [0] - https://edk2-docs.gitbook.io/edk-ii-uefi-driver-writer-s-gui...

mjg59 on Oct 10, 2022 [–]

Microsoft won't sign EBC drivers, but even before Secure Boot made that difficult I think we'd found a total of 2 EBC UEFI drivers in the real world. It's honestly easier to just embed an x86 emulator.

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