Beyond BIOS : Developing with the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface, Third Edition.
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TextPublication details: Boston : De|G Press, 2017.Description: 1 online resource (324 pages)Content type: - text
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- 9781501505690
- 1501505696
- 005.3 23
- QA76.765 .Z566 2017
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Acknowledgements ; Preface ; Chapter 1 -- Introduction ; Terminology ; Short History of EFI ; EFI Becomes UEFI-The UEFI Forum ; PIWG and USWG ; Platform Trust/Security ; Embedded Systems: The New Challenge.
How the Boot Process Differs between a Normal Boot and an Optimized/Embedded Boot Summary ; Chapter 2 -- Basic UEFI Architecture ; Objects Managed by UEFI-based Firmware ; UEFI System Table ; Handle Database ; Protocols ; Working with Protocols ; Multiple Protocol Instances.
Tag GUID UEFI Images ; Applications ; OS Loader ; Drivers ; Events and Task Priority Levels ; Summary ; Chapter 3 -- UEFI Driver Model ; Why a Driver Model Prior to OS Booting? ; Driver Initialization ; Host Bus Controllers ; Device Drivers ; Bus Drivers ; Platform Components.
Hot Plug Events Pseudo Code ; Device Driver ; Bus Driver that Creates All of Its Child Handles on the First Call to Start() ; Bus Driver that Is Able to Create All or One of Its Child Handles on Each Call to Start(): ; Additional Innovations ; Security ; Manageability ; Networking.
Chapter 4 - Protocols You Should Know ; EFI OS Loaders ; Device Path and Image Information of the OS Loader ; Accessing Files in the Device Path of the OS Loader ; Finding the OS Partition ; Getting the Current System Configuration ; Getting the Current Memory Map.
Getting Environment Variables.
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