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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