Linux: Linus On The Extensible Firmware Interface KernelTrap: "And don't get me wrong - the problem
with EFI is that it actually superficially looks much better than the
BIOS, but in practice it ends up being one of those things where it has
few real advantages, and often just a lot of extra complexity because of
the 'new and improved' interfaces that were largely defined by a
committee.
I think a lot of the 'new standards' tend to be that way. Trying to solve
a lot of problems and allow everybody to add their own features, instead
of just saying that it's better to just standardize the hardware.
For example, instead of ACPI, we could just have had standardized hardware
(and a few tables to define things like numbers of CPU's etc). It would
have been simpler for everybody. But no, people seem to think that it's
somehow 'better' to have wild and crazy hardware, and then have a really
complicated way of describing it - and driving it - dynamically."
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