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I’ve been waiting for someone to do something more interesting with EFI. It’s extremely capable and could easily host a minimal recovery environment that would be invaluable in many situations, particularly on laptops which might be out in the field away from recovery tools when things break.


I’ve been waiting for someone to do something more interesting with EFI

The recovery capabilities you mention have existed before EFI:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-on

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splashtop_OS


from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splashtop_OS :

> Splashtop can work with a 512 MB flash memory embedded on the PC motherboard.

Not really a regular bios chip though :)




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