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Table 19. UEFI Summary
| UEFI IS |
| UEFI IS NOT |
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| ∙ Compliant with UEFI specification 2.1 |
| ∙ A PIWG (DXE, PEI) implementation |
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| ∙ A complete rewrite of the system firmware | |
| ∙ A layer on top of the existing legacy BIOS |
| ∙ Developed as a server UEFI implementation or |
| ∙ Independent of processor and chipset technology. |
| desktop and notebook implementations. |
| ∙ Running in |
| ∙ Associated to AMD or Intel based platforms. |
| ∙ Supportive of GUID Partition Table (GPT) |
| ∙ Running in |
| formatted disks |
| ∙ Supportive of legacy MBR formatted disks |
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