Beyond BIOS - Developing with the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (3rd Ed)

Beyond BIOS - Developing with the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (3rd Ed)

By Vincent Zimmer, Suresh Marisetty, Michael Rothman

De|G Press | January 2017 | ISBN-10: 1501514784 | True PDF | 324 Pages | 39.9 mb
https://www.amazon.com/Beyond-BIOS-Developing-Extensible-Interface/dp/1501514784

This book provides an overview of modern boot firmware, including the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (Uefi) and its associated Efi Developer Kit Ii (Edkii) firmware. The authors have each made significant contributions to developments in these areas. The reader will learn to use the latest developments in Uefi on modern hardware, including open source firmware and open hardware designs. The book begins with an exploration of interfaces exposed to higher-level software and operating systems, and commences to the left of the boot timeline, describing the flow of typical systems, beginning with the machine restart event. Software engineers working with Uefi will benefit greatly from this book, while specific sections of the book address topics relevant for a general audience: system architects, pre-operating-system application developers, operating system vendors (loader, kernel), independent hardware vendors (such as for plug-in adapters), and developers of end-user applications. As a secondary audience, project technical leaders or managers may be interested in this book to get a feel for what their engineers are doing. The reader will find: * An overview of Uefi and underlying Platform Initialization (Pi) specifications * How to create Uefi applications and drivers * Workflow to design the firmware solution for a modern platform * Advanced usages of Uefi firmware for security and manageability.

CONTENTS
Acknowledgements | v

Preface | vii

Chapter 1 – Introduction | 1

Chapter 2 – Basic UEFI Architecture | 15

Chapter 3 – UEFI Driver Model | 31

Chapter 4 – Protocols You Should Know | 53

Chapter 5 – UEFI Runtime | 65

Chapter 6 – UEFI Console Services | 81

Chapter 7 – Different Types of Platforms | 97

Chapter 8 – DXE Basics: Core, Dispatching, and Drivers | 111

Chapter 9 – Some Common UEFI and PI Functions | 131

Chapter 10 – Platform Security and Trust | 157

Chapter 11 – Boot Device Selection | 183

Chapter 12 – Boot Flows | 195

Chapter 13 – Pre-EFI Initialization (PEI) | 209

Chapter 14 – Putting It All Together—Firmware Emulation | 227

Chapter 15 – Reducing Platform Boot Times | 237

Chapter 16 – Embedded Boot Solution | 253

Chapter 17 – Manageability | 269

Appendix A – Data Types | 295

Appendix B – Status Codes | 297

Index | 301