Chapter 2 – Basic UEFI Architecture
I believe in standards. Everyone should have one.
—George Morrow
The Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) describes a programmatic interface to the platform. The platform includes the motherboard, chipset, central processing unit (CPU), and other components. UEFI allows for pre-operating system (pre-OS) agents. Pre-OS agents are OS loaders, diagnostics, and other applications that the system needs for applications to execute and interoperate, including UEFI drivers and applications. UEFI represents a pure interface specification against which the drivers and applications interact, and this chapter highlights some of the architectural aspects of the interface. These architectural aspects include a set ...
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