Work through UEFI 2.6.2. Platform-Specific Elements #20
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…ents mandatory and recommended for server platforms. These mostly ended up being firmware requirements - the logic here was that core firmware behavior (esp. around security, interfaces) should be mandatory, whereas the IO requirements (supporting NIC or disk boot) are in the SHOULD category to allow reasonable trade-offs to be made in cloud environments. For example, a cloud provider may not care much about the ability to network boot or boot from non-networked storage, depending on the infrastruture design. Signed-off-by: Andrei Warkentin <andrei.warkentin@intel.com>
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... and identify elements mandatory and recommended for server platforms. These mostly ended up being firmware requirements - the logic here was that core firmware behavior (esp. around security, interfaces) should be mandatory, whereas the IO requirements (supporting NIC or disk boot) are in the SHOULD category to allow reasonable trade-offs to be made in cloud environments. For example, a cloud provider may not care much about the ability to network boot or boot from non-networked storage, depending on the infrastruture design.