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Beyond Bios: Developing with the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface

By Vincent Zimmer , Michael Rothman , Suresh Marisetty

Book information

Publisher
Intel Press
Year
2010
ISBN
9781934053294
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
9 MB (9573666 bytes)
Edition
2
Pages
354\427
Time added
2017-06-21 13:16:17

Description

This book provides an overview of modern boot firmware, including the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) and its associated EFI Developer Kit II (EDKII) firmware. The authors have each made significant contributions to developments in these areas. The reader will learn to use the latest developments in UEFI on modern hardware, including open source firmware and open hardware designs. The book begins with an exploration of interfaces exposed to higher-level software and operating systems, and commences to the left of the boot timeline, describing the flow of typical systems, beginning with the machine restart event. Software engineers working with UEFI will benefit greatly from this book, while specific sections of the book address topics relevant for a general audience: system architects, pre-operating-system application developers, operating system vendors (loader, kernel), independent hardware vendors (such as for plug-in adapters), and developers of end-user applications. As a secondary audience, project technical leaders or managers may be interested in this book to get a feel for what their engineers are doing.

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