Chapter 11 Intel’s Fast Boot Technology
A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.
—Eleanor Roosevelt
One of the key objectives of computing platforms is responsiveness. BIOS boot time is a key factor in responsiveness that OEM manufacturers, end users, and OS vendors ask firmware developers to deliver. Here the focus is on system startup time and resume times.
Traditional Intel architecture BIOS has labored through the years to design itself to boot on any configuration that the platform can discover, each time it boots it works to rediscover anything it can about a change to the machine configuration that may have happened when it was off. This provides the most robust, flexible experience possible for ...
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