Mun riga munyi magana akai LinuxBoot a cikin wannan rukunin yanar gizon, wanda shine tsarin da nake so maye gurbin UEFI, menene mummunan suna da shi. Wannan aikin ya taso musamman ga HPC (bisa x86), ma'ana, don sabobin da manyan kwamfutoci, wanda anan ne ake amfani dashi a halin yanzu. Gidauniyar Linux tana son maye gurbin UEFI kwata-kwata kuma wannan aikin babban mataki ne don kawar da wannan opaque, a hankali, kuma wani lokacin faduwa ko kayan aikin tsaro.
Mun riga mun san cewa firmware koyaushe tana da sauki dalili, wanda shine fara tsarin aiki. Amma tare da ƙaruwar rikitarwa na kayan aiki, wannan yana daɗa rikitarwa don aiwatarwa. A halin yanzu, firmware dole ne ta daidaita abubuwa da yawa na tsarin, tare da musayar bayanai da yawa ko kafofin watsa labaru, tallafawa gogaggen ladabi da fasalolin tsaro, da sauransu. Saboda haka, wani abu mai sauƙi ya zama matsala mai rikitarwa.
Farawa yana da matakai uku: SEC, PEI da DXE. Direba ko DXE lokacin gudu shine inda tsarin UEFI ke ɗora wa direbobi abubuwan da aka saita su. LinuxBoot zai maye gurbin takamaiman aikin firmware kamar wannan matakin na UEFI DXE tare da kwafin aikin Linux. Baya ga cin nasara mafi girman amincin farawa, hakan yana ba da aiki mafi kyau, saboda yana iya yin hakan har sau 20 cikin sauri.
Wannan ya sanya shi cikakke ga mutane da yawa sabobin da manyan kwamfutoci, da kuma a aikace-aikace da yawa da aka saka da na soja. Kuma muna da labari mai kyau tunda, kodayake wannan aikin kamar an ɗan dakatar dashi, yana raye sosai. An tattauna shi a taron FOSDEM 2019 kuma injiniyoyi daga Facebook da Google suna ba da gudummawa sosai ga aikin don sakin kayan aikin a ƙananan matakin. Waɗannan kamfanonin biyu suna amfani da shi don samun saurin gudu da aminci ga manyan injunan su, amma ba su kaɗai ke cikin lamarin ba, yanzu ma mun san Horizon Computing, Sigma biyu, 9elementes Cyber Security, da dai sauransu.