Beyond BIOS: Developing with the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface, Third Edition 3rd Edition

by Vincent Zimmer (Author), Michael Rothman (Contributor), Suresh Marisetty (Contributor)

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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

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Vincent Zimmer Engineer, WA, USA, Suresh Marisetty Systems Architect, CA, USA, Michael Rothman Engineer,WA, USA

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ De|G Press; 3rd edition (January 23, 2017)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 324 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1501514784
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1501514784
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.36 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.69 x 0.73 x 9.45 inches

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Vincent Zimmer was born in Houston, Texas, where he also grew up. Vincent attended Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, and achieved a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering. Vincent has worked for various technology companies, including Intel Corporation, where he has been employed since 1997. While working at Intel, Vincent received his Master of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington. Vincent is presently a senior principal engineer at Intel. During Vincent's career working on embedded systems and firmware, he has received over 450 US patents https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_prolific_inventors and presented at several industry conferences. In addition to the Beyond BIOS book, Vincent has published book chapters, papers, and articles. Along with writing firmware, Vincent has also contributed to and written specifications in the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) Forum, the Trusted Computing Group (TCG), and the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). Vincent has an Erdős number of 3 https://www.csauthors.net/distance/paul-erdos/vincent-zimmer. Vincent presently lives in the Seattle area of Washington State with his wife and 2 daughters.

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Myles Schultz

Waste of Money

Reviewed in the United States on February 25, 2019

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There is a good amount of information in this book, but based upon the book’s description, I was expecting an explanation of how to develop with UEFI. Instead, this is more of a bird’s eye view of what the UEFI environment covers and why it was created. What UEFI/Tianocore really needs is an updated group of tutorials for people who are new to developing with UEFI and want to break into working with this envirment. This book does not provide anything close to a tutorial, and the tutorials available on the Tianocore GitHub seem to be out of date. For instance, when building UEFI2018 using the tutorials, I ran into several warnings, and even errors when building: there were headers missing, required programs that the tutorial didn’t mention, etc. I have checked the UEFI forms, and from what I have found, there are a lot of people with the same issue and no answer as to how to get UEFI working. I was hoping this text would help feel in gaps, but not even close. It’s mostly dry, and largely unhelpful information—reading the book cover to cover does not result in any actual “development” as is indicated in the title. They should rename this book to “Beyond BIOS: A UEFI Overview” because that’s what it is. I didn’t find anything in this book that isn’t available on the internet for free.

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Mr. Chris

Tooo many typos

Reviewed in the United States on February 14, 2021

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Often the text calls out the wrong figure or diagram. That's fine for a blog post, but not cool for an expensive 3rd edition book.

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William Marone

Niche, but perfect if this is your niche.

Reviewed in the United States on February 21, 2017

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Good as a starter to UEFI and UEFI driver writing. Handy as a reference.

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WaggRnch1

Somewhat Disappointed

Reviewed in the United States on June 9, 2014

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Based on the title, I was expecting a book whose focus would be developing drivers and other interfaces to system UEFI software. Instead, the focus of the book seems to be largely a history and architectural overview of the EFI and UEFI standards and interfaces development, which is interesting to some software engineers, but not terribly useful to people hoping to interface to UEFI software. I am dating myself when I state that my experience as a PC BIOS user was of no help to that end, nor did this book help much either.

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Between introduction and reference

Reviewed in the United States on June 12, 2012

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I used Zimmer, Rothman, and Marisetty's book as an introduction to EFI. Although it was a bit over my head, not being a driver/firmware developer, the book coaches the reader efficiently. But this is not a how-to or hand-holding introduction. You wont find a step-by-step guide to beginning EFI development. That said, after reading the book, I've been able to jump right into development of simple EFI applications. And I'm loving it! I would certainly recommend the book, but then again you're selection as far as EFI is concerned, is rather... limited. :)

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Zielnic

as expected

Reviewed in the United States on January 31, 2015

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As expected.

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AaLl86

A very good UEFI Book

Reviewed in Italy on February 9, 2013

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This book brings a good base knowledge on UEFI Firmware interface. It is written by UEFI engineers. It introduces a brief firmware development story, then explains every components of UEFI interface, boot process: from PEI (pre efi-initialization phase), DXE, to Boot Selection phase. It describes also UEFI Driver and application programming model in an excellent manner. As a drawback it costs quite a lot but price is well compensate. Advised for every developer that would like to start writing UEFI application.

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YuLin

It’s bible!

Reviewed in Japan on December 10, 2019

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UEFI bible. Every BIOS RD should be get one.

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