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This reduces the FreeBSD boot time by approximately 5 seconds, roughly equally divided betwenn two factors: * Disk I/O is faster in the EFI loader since it can perform larger I/Os. (The BIOS loader is limited due to the use of bounce buffers in sub-1M memory.) * The EFI console is much faster than the VGA console. Note however that not all EC2 instance types support UEFI; as a general rule the newer instances (based on Amazon's "Nitro" platform) support UEFI but the older instances (based on Xen) do not. X-MFC: TBD based on tradeoff between performance and compatibility Relnotes: yes Sponsored by: https://www.patreon.com/cperciva