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You mean UEFI. Not BIOS.



Almost everyone uses BIOS as a metonymy for UEFI, even the people like @djpohly and the bios-mods.com community (the URL here is telling) who recently reverse engineered Lenovo's UEFI for us to mod and hack AHCI into working again.


I'm just going to update the BIOS on my Smartphone then.


Interestingly enough, it's somehow okay to say that GBA and PSX consoles have "BIOSes" (a dumped "BIOS" is required for emulating both), but smartphones only have bootloaders and "recoveries."




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