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Re: installation-guide: BIOS/UEFI changes

From Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org>
Newsgroups linux.debian.maint.boot, linux.debian.bugs.dist
Subject Re: installation-guide: BIOS/UEFI changes
Date 2020-07-26 17:50 +0200
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Hi,

Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> wrote:
> Hey Holger!
> 
> On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 12:08:52PM +0200, Holger Wansing wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >I'm planning some small changings for BIOS -> UEFI changings in the
> >installation-guide.
> >No big deal, in many cases just changes "BIOS" into "BIOS/UEFI",
> >but I wanted to provide a patch here nevertheless for review/comments.
> 
> Looks fine for me. :-)

Just applied, thanks.

Together with what we already have about UEFI in
https://d-i.debian.org/doc/installation-guide/en.amd64/ch03s06.html#UEFI
it should now be sufficient to close this bug:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=905173
"[installation-guide] Document EFI firmware as successor of BIOS"
Thus tagging as pending.


Holger

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installation-guide: BIOS/UEFI changes Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org> - 2020-07-24 12:10 +0200
  Re: installation-guide: BIOS/UEFI changes Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> - 2020-07-24 12:30 +0200
    Re: installation-guide: BIOS/UEFI changes Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org> - 2020-07-26 17:50 +0200
      Processed: Re: installation-guide: BIOS/UEFI changes "Debian Bug Tracking System" <owner@bugs.debian.org> - 2020-07-26 17:50 +0200

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