Chapter 14 – Putting It All Together—Firmware Emulation

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field.

—Niels Bohr

In the preceding chapters, various stages of the firmware initialization process were described. In addition, various possible usage models have been described that can be implemented on a target hardware platform. By now it should have become evident that many of the UEFI firmware interfaces do not in and of themselves talk directly to hardware; instead they actually talk to underlying components that are responsible for talking to hardware. Traditionally, firmware development has not been an activity that could be performed without an in-circuit emulator (ICE) or other hardware debug ...

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