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Date:      Wed, 24 Jan 2018 21:20:24 +0000 (UTC)
From:      Ed Maste <emaste@FreeBSD.org>
To:        src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   svn commit: r328375 - head/share/man/man8
Message-ID:  <201801242120.w0OLKONW068247@repo.freebsd.org>

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Author: emaste
Date: Wed Jan 24 21:20:24 2018
New Revision: 328375
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/328375

Log:
  uefi.8: note that UEFI and EFI are used interchangeably

Modified:
  head/share/man/man8/uefi.8

Modified: head/share/man/man8/uefi.8
==============================================================================
--- head/share/man/man8/uefi.8	Wed Jan 24 21:11:35 2018	(r328374)
+++ head/share/man/man8/uefi.8	Wed Jan 24 21:20:24 2018	(r328375)
@@ -39,6 +39,10 @@ to operating systems.
 is a replacement for the legacy BIOS on the i386 and amd64 CPU architectures,
 and is also used on arm, arm64 and ia64.
 .Pp
+The UEFI specification is the successor to the Extensible Firmware Interface
+(EFI) specification.
+The terms are often used interchangeably.
+.Pp
 The
 .Nm
 boot process loads system bootstrap code located in an EFI System Partition



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