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Beyond BIOS: Implementing the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface with Intel's Framework (Computer System Design)

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A new edition of this book (isbn 1934053295) is out. That's FYI (and this is the only way I can post this information; I realise this is not a review; just trying to be a good citizen). And remember, if it's not available from this site, you can always get all Intel books from Intel direct -- this I'm saying so that you don't pay astronomical prices sellers sometimes ask for books that are not available from Amazon. Remember that not being available here doesn't necessarily mean the book is out of print. The book is fairly expensive as is: do not overpay.

Vincent Zimmer is a Principal Engineer in the Software and Solutions Group at Intel Corporation. With over 14 years experience in embedded software development and design, Vincent holds over 10 U.S. patents and was awarded an Intel Achievement Award for his development of the EFI Framework Architecture. He has a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering degree from Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, and a Master of Science in Computer Science degree from the University of Washington, Seattle.

Michael Rothman is a Senior Staff Engineer in the Software and Solutions Group at Intel and has more than 17 years of operating system and embedded software development experience. He started his career with kernel and file system development in OS/2 and DOS and eventually migrating to embedded operating systems work and firmware development. Mike has worked on many firmware products, including those with conventional code bases as well as various EFI and now UEFI deployments.

Robert Hale is a Principal Engineer in the Desktop Enterprise Group at Intel. In the 1980s he focused on real-time operating systems for minicomputers and was one of the small band of developers working on the early networking of PCs. He started doing BIOS development in 1986 working on keyboard controller firmware and went on to develop host features for desktop systems. Robert was one of the original Framework architects, leading a firmware team that deployed the first Framework-based product for EFI.

Customer Comment:
"This book is for you if you'd like to understand the UEFI/PI architecture and the Framework implementation; that is, to understand how to move beyond BIOS. It gives you all the technical background to understand Bill Gates' WINHEC 2006 Keynote Speech when he said: "There are changes across the board, in terms of how hardware and software work together. If we think about boot, we're finally moving away from the old BIOS to this unified extensible firmware interface, and that gives us new flexibility and capability, and it's got a rich API set to build on, so many of you are working with us on that." For any student in this field, this book provides an important bridge between normative specifications and the informative details of the development."

- Dong Wei, Vice President and Chief Executive, the Unified EFI Forum, HP Distinguished Technologist