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| | Extensible Firmware Interface - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The 610 used Insyde Software's InsydeH2O EFI firmware. | | | Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) is the name for a new system developed by Intel that is designed to replace the aging BIOS system used by personal computers. | | | In that sense, it is similar to Open Firmware, the hardware-independent firmware used in PowerPC-based Apple Macintosh computers and Sun Microsystems SPARC computers, amongst others. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible_Firmware_Interface
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| | Open Firmware - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Open Firmware (also, OpenBoot) is a hardware-independent firmware (computer software which loads the operating system), developed by Sun Microsystems, and used in post-NuBus PowerPC-based Apple Macintosh computers, Sun Microsystems SPARC based workstations and servers, IBM POWER systems, and PegasosPPC systems, among others. | | | On those computers, Open Firmware fulfills the same tasks as BIOS does on PC computers. | | | For example, it is possible to program Open Firmware to solve the Tower of Hanoi problem. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Firmware
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| | Recovery of operating system configuration data by firmware of computer system patent |
| | In another embodiment, the firmware of the computer system operates in accordance with the Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) framework standard to backup and recover OS configuration data. | | | In one embodiment, the user is presented with a user interface asking the user if the computer system should be booted from the current boot target. | | | In one embodiment network 630 is further coupled to a remote computer 635, such that computer system 600 and remote computer 635 can communicate. |
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http://www.freshpatents.com/Recovery-of-operating-system-configuration-data-by-firmware-of-computer-system-dt20041216ptan20040255106.php
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| | Introducing the Intel Platform Innovation Framework for the Extensible Firmware Interface |
| | The Intel Platform Innovation Framework for the Extensible Firmware Interface is a new product-strength implementation of EFI. | | | The task of boot firmware (whether the BIOS or firmware based on the Framework) is to make a collection of hardware before the boot look like a complete system after the boot. | | | The Framework is a set of robust architectural interfaces, implemented in C, which provides a way to build platform firmware via modular components. |
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http://deviceforge.com/articles/AT8747644820.html
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| | Apple Gives Developers New iMacs; Implements EFI - OSx86 Project Forum |
| | The Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) is an updated BIOS specification developed by Intel. | | | The Framework is an implementation of the Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) | | | Also, on the hardware front, Apple updated its Universal Binary Guidelines and revealed that the new Macs will be implementing Intel& EFI (extensible firmware interface) to replace the venerable BIOS. |
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http://forum.osx86project.org/index.php?showtopic=6690
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| | EFI - OSx86 |
| | The Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) is a firmware technology that was designed by Intel to replace the aging PC-BIOS. | | | Apple uses an EFI 1.10 compliant firmware based on Intel's reference implementation in the new Intel Macs. | | | The purpose of this page is to gather information and tips regarding support for EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface) on the latest OS X 10.4.4 release. |
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http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/EFI
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| | Microsoft Windows XP - Extensible Firmware Interface |
| | The Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) is a new type of interface between a computer's firmware, hardware, and the operating system. | | | An easy way to add EFI drivers for new bootable devices without the need to update the computer's firmware. | | | Computers with the Intel Itanium family of processors use EFI to start and load Windows XP 64-Bit Edition. |
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http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/extensible_firmware_interface.mspx
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| | Firmware Design |
| | ACPI firmware entries are the same for supporting all versions of Windows for x86 and x64 architectures. | | | EFI firmware is required for 64-bit Windows on Intel Itanium-based systems. | | | Pre-OS Firmware for the Longhorn Boot Environment [WinHEC 2005; 335 KB] |
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http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/platform/firmware/default.mspx
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| | In that sense, it is similar to Open Firmware, the hardware-independent firmware used in PowerPC-based Apple Macintosh computers, Sun Microsystems SPARC computers, and others. | | | The Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) is an updated BIOS specification developed by Intel. | | | EFI also allows the operating system to run in a sandbox, delegating networking and memory management issues to the firmware instead of the OS. |
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http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/user/view/cs_msg/78403
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| | American Megatrends to Present Firmware and Diagnostic Support for EFI at WinHEC |
| | The EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface) specification defines a set of interfaces and structures for platform firmware on next-generation computer systems. | | | Enterprise64, AMI’s firmware offering for platforms based on the Intel Itanium Processor Family, is compliant with EFI 1.1. | | | AMI is a member of the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) and an Associate Member with the Intel&; Communications Alliance, a community of communications and embedded developers and solution providers. |
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http://www.ami.com/news/pressshow.cfm?PrID=106
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| | The Future of the BIOS: Modular, Scalable, Driver-Based Framework for EFI |
| | Intel's answer to BIOS limitations has been the Extensible Firmware Interface and the Intel Platform Innovation Framework for EFI, referred to here as the Framework. | | | When used with Intel's Extensible Firmware Interface, the Framework completely eliminates the need for a traditional BIOS interface. | | | Introducing the Intel Platform Innovation Framework for the Extensible Firmware Interface |
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http://www.deviceforge.com/articles/AT4903582708.html
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| | Articles - Apple Macintosh |
| | It was the first commercially successful personal computer to use a graphical user interface (GUI) and mouse instead of the then-standard command line interface. | | | Possibly Apple's number-one effect on the industry was the first large-scale use of a graphical user interface in operating system software. | | | Apple has introduced a number of innovations in direct relation to the Macintosh 128K that were later adopted by the rest of industry as a standard for the design of computers. |
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http://www.hailstone.biz/articles/Apple_Macintosh
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| | kbAlertz: (294776) - After you use the MOUNTVOL utility to mount your Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) partition, ... |
| | After you use the MOUNTVOL utility to mount your Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) partition, you are unable to see the new drive letter in Microsoft Windows Explorer or My Computer. | | | kbAlertz: (294776) - After you use the MOUNTVOL utility to mount your Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) partition, you are unable to see the new drive letter in Microsoft Windows Explorer or My Computer. | | | (294776) - After you use the MOUNTVOL utility to mount your Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) partition, you are unable to see the new drive letter in Microsoft Windows Explorer or My Computer. |
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http://www.kbalertz.com/kb_294776.aspx
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| | BIOS technology to give way to Extensible Firmware Interface |
| | EFI will allegedly make it easier to transition to new technologies and to interface with hardware in a pre-boot environment. | | | To that end, there's a lot of discussion going on as to what Microsoft, Phoenix, and now Intel have in mind for the future. | | | BIOS technology to give way to Extensible Firmware Interface |
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http://arstechnica.com/news/posts/1072808767.html
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| | Say Bye, Bye to the BIOS Layer |
| | Once known as "Tiano" and now dubbed the "Intel Platform Innovation Framework for EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface)", the company says the framework will help system administrators improve the way they manage and service systems including upgrades and data recovery. | | | The idea is even garnering support from Microsoft (Quote, Chart), which previously balked at the concept of Intel's EFI. | | | Intel Platform Software manager Mike Richmond says the software enables address space for OptionROMs in servers; remote firmware management; enabling headless servers without extra hardware; blade and cluster provisioning without having to press "F1" for setup; problem isolation between boards, disk and operating system; and changing the configuration for a PC before the OS boot. |
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http://siliconvalley.internet.com/news/print.php/3079301
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| | Intel To Open-Source Next-Gen BIOS Code |
| | Tiano, also known as the Extensible Firmware Interface, provides a pre-boot software environment that is completely OS-agnostic, meaning that BIOS vendors like American Megatrends Inc. and Insyde Software Corp., who have licensed the technology, could develop their own quasi-applications. | | | "Because pre-boot firmware is a vital ingredient in all modern platforms, silicon vendors and system manufacturers require stability in the Foundation code to protect their investment in innovation," said Will Swope, vice president and general manager of the Software and Solutions Group at Intel, in a statement. | | | For Intel, the problem is that BIOS giant Phoenix Technologies has already taken the technology and run with it, developing |
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http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1605386,00.asp
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| | efi |
| | Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) is the name for a new system developed by Intel that is... | | | Depiction of the workings of the Extensible Firmware Interface. | | | The EFI specification defines a new model for the interface between operating systems and platform firmware. |
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http://www.hotvsnot.com/search/?s=efi
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| | Extensible Firmware Interface To Replace BIOS |
| | Mark Doran, Intel's principal engineer behind the new approach to the rather old Basic Input / Output System said, that BIOS is producing more and more problems as technology advances. | | | Likewise, it can run with a proper graphical user interface, rather than the blocky text-only interface. | | | ALSO, Toshiba have beaten Intel with a GUI OS BIOS SET UP software, Toshiba would need something that is OS independant too and something that will only run with MS Windows and not say UNIX, is as bad as having no BIOS set up controls at all! |
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http://www.warp2search.net/esselbach/story.php?id=10840
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| | PCQuest : HandsOn : Future of the BIOS |
| | This moves the firmware code beyond the costly and limited storage on Flash memory and EEROM. | | | BIOS (Basic Input Output System) has been a key component of the IBM PC architecture. | | | Unlike BIOS, which is a program, EFI can be considered a tiny OS. |
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http://www.pcquest.com/content/handson/103040306.asp
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| | PC Industry Looks to Transform Firmware |
| | Given that UEFI 2.0 firmware is said to only boot 64-bit EFI operating systems, the move there isn't expected to gain momentum until 2007, when Windows Vista and 64-bit hardware come together, said Mike Richmond, manager for platform software infrastructure for Intel's Software and Solutions Group, in Hillsboro, Ore. | | | In a move that experts say promises to lead to fewer headaches for IT staff by creating more stable and manageable desktops and notebooks, the PC industry has begun transitioning to the United Extensible Firmware Interface. | | | Vista was designed to work with either EFI- or BIOS-based firmware, Microsoft has indicated. |
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1917410,00.asp
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| | PC World's Techlog - No Windows XP on an Intel Mac After All |
| | Go to http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=303956 to see a technical description of Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) technology which the author of article states as incompatible with Windows XP which is indedd true for the 32-bit version. | | | Consistent user interface elements across applications results in substantial productivity gains - the average Mac user is proficient in over six programs at an expert level, while PC users tend to only be able to master fewer than three. | | | There's not much use in getting the wrong answer at the speed of light, or having to overcome a horrible user interface to do even the simplest task. |
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http://blogs.pcworld.com/techlog/archives/001318.html
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| | Description of Extensible Firmware Interface |
| | Microsoft supports Extensibile Firmware Interface as the only firmware interface to boot Windows XP. | | | For more information about the Extensibile Firmware Interface, Processor Abstraction Layer, and System Abstraction Layer, please see the following Intel and Microsoft Web sites: | | | 294780 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/294780/EN-US/) Determining Firmware Version of Itanium-Based Workstation |
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http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=303956
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| | Updates for 02/16/2006: |
| | Loading Windows CE.NET With The Extensible Firmware Interface | | | With Apple's recent announcement for support of Intel processors, EFI has been in the news like never before. | | | This web site would not be possible without the Community Starter Kit and the outstanding enhancements made by the CSKDotNet 1.1 project. |
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http://www.learningce.com/default.aspx
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| | Special Report from PC Magazine: Microsoft Reveals More of Vista |
| | Since build 5231 is a relatively early beta, the user interface and features we saw remain subject to change. | | | As a result, it increasingly appears that Vista's differentiating features, aside from the sleek new shell interface, will be the ones that are less visible to typical users: hardened security, better diagnostics, and improved manageability in enterprise environments. | | | One caveat: applications that don't implement Restart Manager would still be shut down by force, so this scenario requires extensive support from third-party developers to be maximally effective. |
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http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1872067,00.asp
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| | Extensible Firmware Interface from FOLDOC |
| | (EFI) A specification originating from Intel Corporation, defining the interface between an operating system and platform firmware, and aiming to reduce OS dependence on details of the firmware implementation. | | | Nearby terms: eXtended Video Graphics Array « extensible « extensible database « Extensible Firmware Interface » Extensible HyperText Markup Language » Extensible Markup Language » Extensible Shell |
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http://ftp.sunet.se/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?EFI
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| | A method for using available firmware flash ROM space as a diagnostic drive of a computer system that includes a central processing unit, a hard disk drive, a nonvolatile random access memory, and Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI), and a basic input and output system, the method comprising the steps of: | | | when the computer system is initialized, configuring the available space in the flash memory that is not allocated to the firmware as a diagnostic disk drive; | | | storing the modified Extensible Firmware Interface and the EFI driver in the nonvolatile random access memory; |
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http://www.uspto.gov/web/patents/patog/week18/OG/html/1294-1/US06889340-20050503.html
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| | sandpile.org -- IA-64 documentation -- Intel (IA-64) |
| | ISSCC 2003: a 400 MT/s 6.4 GB/s multiprocessor bus interface (incl. | | | extensible firmware interface (EFI) byte code virtual machine 0.7 draft | | | extensible firmware interface (EFI) specification 1.10 changes from 0.95 to 1.0 |
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http://www.sandpile.org/docs/intel/ia-64.htm
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| | MacSlash KernelThread Examines Extensible Firmware And Open Firmware |
| | The author talks about the Open Firmware telnet server(!), and a couple of programs he wrote to run inside Open Firmware: a graphical simulation of a windowing environment and a graphical Towers of Hanoi game. | | | I knew there was a language in Open Firmware, but not how robust it was! | | | While is is mostly about the new Extensible Firmware Interface being worked on as a replacement to the really really ancient PC BIOS, there are some interesting comparisons to Open Firmware. |
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http://macslash.org/article.pl?sid=04/06/17/1352221&mode=thread
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| | Intel Corporation - EFI Sample Implementation |
| | The implementation is designed for integration with an existing underlying BIOS or firmware implementation. | | | This is a portable implementation of the EFI core and EFI 1.10 Driver Model. |
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http://support.intel.com/technology/efi/main_sample.htm
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| | AnandTech - Extensible Firmware Interface, why? |
| | I have heard Intel is pushing Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) to replace the BIOS and that Vista will support it. | | | According to the presentation I looked at on the Intel web site EFI will sit between the BIOS and the OS. | | | does it mean it will replace bios as the where users can actually interface with their settings? |
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http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=29&threadid=1792437
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| | New Unified EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface) Forum to Manage Key Firmware to Operating System Specification |
| | The Forum will assume responsibility from Intel for the evolution and promotion of the EFI Specification, which details an interface to hand off control of a system from the pre-boot environment to current and next-generation operating systems. | | | The inclusion of UEFI in operating systems and platforms will advance interoperability between platforms and add-in cards and pave the way for improvements in boot performance and robustness. | | | EFI is already supported by a number of 64-bit operating systems and platforms, and is an emerging interface for 32-bit operating systems. |
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http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2005/jul/1166493.htm
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| | Taking Advantage of Preboot Moments |
| | Phoenix is addressing this in cooperation with IBM, Dell, AMD, Intel, Microsoft and other members of the nonprofit Unified Extensible Firmware Interface Forum, whose specification for a tightly controlled preboot handoff interface is due to appear by year's end. | | | It's time to put as much ingenuity into greater assurance of what computers can't do as the industry has so far invested in enabling them to do more. | | | Wise discussed the difference between the boot-up experience of the early years, when users actually observed and often understood the POST (Power-On Self-Test) data that their PCs displayed, and the much-higher-level interaction of users who don't really look at their screens until the Windows desktop appears. |
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1858100,00.asp
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| | Forum aims to replace BIOS |
| | The information in the interface would consist of tables that contain boot-related and platform-related information. | | | UEFI would not be specific to any processor, while the BIOS was designed for Intel& x86 architecture. | | | UEFI would be a model for the interface between an operating system and the PC’s or server’s firmware. |
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http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/servers/2005/0801server1.html
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| | Alphabetic File Extension List |
| | Personal Paint English Language User Interface File (Amiga) | | | Personal Paint Spanish Language User Interface File (Amiga) |
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| | Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) Boot Manager |
| | Display firmware version for PDC, ICM, and complex | | | EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface) is an OS and platform-independent boot and pre-boot interface. | | | EFI variables provides system firmware a boot menu that points to all the operating systems, even multiple versions of the same operating systems. |
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http://docs.hp.com/en/AB430-96005/ch04s01.html
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| | Writing an end to the bio of BIOS CNET News.com |
| | Intel and Microsoft are gearing up to move toward the first major overhaul of the innermost workings of the personal computer--the boundary where software and hardware meet--during 2004. | | | The companies will begin promoting a technology specification called EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface) as a new system for starting up a PC's hardware before its operating system begins loading, a process that kicks in every time a PC is switched on or restarted. | | | Intel and Microsoft say it's time to ditch the outmoded BIOS, or basic input/output system, which for 23 years has served to start a PC's hardware before the operating system takes over. |
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http://news.com.com/2100-1008-5131787.html
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| | x86 Weekly News - 09/05/99 |
| | Never forget that Intel is OS agnostic, despite the fact it has undoubted software skill, for example building many answers into Microsoft Windows 98, as reported here earlier this year. | | | The EFI spec is superior because it's implementation-agnostic; it separates the BIOS from the operating system; it is modular and extensible and complements existing interfaces. | | | EFI will use high level language protected mode code, and provide a level of abstraction as an OS loader, according to Doran. |
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http://www.x86.org/news/1999/news090599.htm
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| | Opsware Opts For Intel’s Proposed EFI Standard - ebizQ |
| | Opsware Inc., a provider of data center automation (DCA) software has endorsed Intel’s Platform Innovation Framework for the Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI). | | | “The EFI specification defines a new interface between operating systems and firmware, and provides a standard mechanism to boot an operating system and run pre-boot utilities. | | | By building on EFI, data center automation software such as Opsware can further reduce companies’ system provisioning costs and deliver what most IT executives are demanding — complete unattended, remote server provisioning — another capability necessary for the lights-out data center model. |
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http://www.ebizq.net/news/2814.html
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| | Intel Corporation - Specification Overview |
| | Describes in detail the EFI compression/decompression algorithm, as well as the EFI Decompress Protocol. | | | The additional protocol interfaces are included to support replacement of legacy option ROMs on add-in cards by EFI drivers that may use or produce those interfaces. | | | This means that any EFI application or driver binaries that are compiled to the EFI 1.02 Specification will continue to function on system firmware that complies with the EFI 1.10 Specification. |
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http://support.intel.com/technology/efi/main_specification.htm
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| | PARTITION_INFORMATION_GPT structure [Files] |
| | The PARTITION_INFORMATION_GPT structure contains partition information that is specific to Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) formatted disks. | | | This member can be one or more of the following values. | | | The Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) attributes of a partition. |
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http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/fileio/fs/partition_information_gpt_str.asp?frame=true
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| | DDJ > News & Views |
| | (For more information on EFI, see "The Extensible Firmware Interface," by Craig Szydlowski; DDJ, September 2005). | | | The EFI spec defines an interface that hands off system control from the preboot environment to the operating system. | | | The nonprofit Unified EFI Forum has been formed to manage the evolution and promotion of the Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) specification (http://www.uefi.org/). |
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http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=9893/ddj0510s/0510s.html
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| | Extensible Firmware Interface - TheBestLinks.com - EFI, BIOS, TheBestLinks.com:Find or fix a stub, ... |
| | EFI, Extensible Firmware Interface, BIOS, TheBestLinks.com:Find or fix a stub... | | | The Extensible Firmware Interface, or EFI, is a new BIOS specification. | | | Extensible Firmware Interface - TheBestLinks.com - EFI, BIOS, TheBestLinks.com:Find or fix a stub, TheBestLinks.com:Perfect stub article,... |
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http://www.thebestlinks.com/EFI.html
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| | * Based on 'Extensible Firmware Interface Specification' version 0.9, April 30, 1999 |
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