new UEFI support in Citrix 7.7

One of the new features in this release:

Support for UEFI pre-boot environments. This enables you to stream at startup time using gigabit network speeds, so users experience faster startups, and to use disks over 2 TB.

https://docs.citrix.com/en-us/provisioning/7-7/pvs-new.html

I’m unclear of the specifics. What does ‘UEFI pre-boot environments’ mean? Does this mean OVMF support or something else? How does this help my startup time using gigabit network speeds, does this mean UEFI pre-OS network functionality is used, or something else?
Where is the security documentation for Citrix sysadmins, clarifying pre-OS issues if they’re being added to the stack for the first time? (For that matter, I’ve not found any good docs on this latter topic by any VMM vendor.)

 

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