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Specification that describes parts of firmware
Implementations". UEFI Forum. December 16, 2024. "UEFI Platform Initialization Specification". UEFI Forum. September 2024. UEFI Specifications and Tools Intel Technology
UEFI_Platform_Initialization
Technical specification for firmware architecture
Firmware Interface or UEFI is a specification for the firmware architecture of a computing platform. When a computer is powered on, the UEFI implementation typically
UEFI
Non-profit trade organization based in Oregon
addition to the UEFI specification, the forum is responsible for a UEFI Platform Initialization (PI) specification, which addresses the firmware internal architecture
UEFI_Forum
Trusted execution environment subsystem that runs on AMD microprocessors
the PSP still do some hardware initialization tasks (such as I/O subsystem initialization) and collaborate with UEFI firmware in the boot process. In
AMD Platform Security Processor
AMD_Platform_Security_Processor
Computing specification
structure creation is normally up to the system firmware/BIOS. The UEFI Platform Initialization (PI) specification includes an SMBIOS protocol (EFI_SMBIOS_PROTOCOL)
System_Management_BIOS
Firmware for hardware initialization and OS runtime services
for the memory initialization (e.g. SPD and memory timings initialization). Modern BIOS includes Intel Management Engine or AMD Platform Security Processor
BIOS
Open-source computer firmware
firmware to initialize hardware and then load an operating system. It is designed to replace proprietary firmware (traditional BIOS or UEFI implementations)
Coreboot
Firmware to add BIOS support for a device
is firmware that is executed by the BIOS after POST (the testing and initialization of basic system hardware) and before the BIOS boot process, gaining
Option_ROM
Operating mode of x86 central processor units
Coreboot – 00:34:30 Archived 2025-01-25 at the Wayback Machine. UEFI Platform Initialization Specification. Robert McMillan (2008-05-10). "Hackers find a
System_Management_Mode
Computer firmware interface standard
firmware (UEFI or BIOS), which the kernel parses. ACPI then executes the desired operations written in ACPI Machine Language (such as the initialization of hardware
ACPI
Process of starting a computer
boot loaders. Examples of first-stage (hardware initialization stage) boot loaders include BIOS, UEFI, coreboot, Libreboot and Das U-Boot. On the IBM
Booting
Chinese computer technology company
(Insyde Software's implementation of the Intel Platform Innovation Framework for UEFI/EFI), BlinkBoot, a UEFI-based boot loader for enabling Internet of Things
Insyde_Software
original (PDF) on July 25, 2011. Retrieved July 19, 2011. "UEFI - Platform Initialization Specification". Archived from the original on October 6, 2011
List_of_computer_standards
Boot loader package
for UEFI-based computers (BIOS not supported). CloverEFI – Macintosh-style graphical boot manager for BIOS and UEFI-based computers. It emulates UEFI with
GNU_GRUB
Process performed by firmware or software routines
are handled by the BIOS or UEFI. In IBM PC compatible computers, the main duties of POST are handled by the BIOS or UEFI, which may hand some of these
Power-on_self-test
Stage 1 and stage 2 bootloader for Apple devices
bridgeOS loads the UEFI firmware; UEFI firmware starts the main Intel processor and completes the Power-On Self Test process. The UEFI firmware loads boot
IBoot
Multi-stage initialisation process of operating system
PC–compatible personal computers (PCs), this firmware/program is either a BIOS or a UEFI monitor, and is stored in the mainboard. In embedded Linux systems, this
Booting_process_of_Linux
Linux distribution
up a supporting operating system. The latest version 11.0 can boot on UEFI/UEFI+Secure and Legacy BIOS allowing CAINE to be used on information systems
CAINE_Linux
International hardware and software company
Microsoft Windows and UEFI platforms. It includes both the Windows and DOS PC diagnostics programs. Later versions of AMIDiag support UEFI, which allows diagnostics
American_Megatrends
Open-source, primary boot the device's operating system kernel
loader used in embedded devices to perform various low-level hardware initialization tasks and boot the device's operating system kernel. It is available
Das_U-Boot
Eleventh major version of Windows Server, released in 2024
February 17, 2025. Lee, Brandon (September 19, 2023). "Windows Server 2025: Initial Glimpse with New Domain Functional Level". Virtualization Howto. Retrieved
Windows_Server_2025
Operating system based on OS/2
Windows and DOS, as well as supporting 16-bit Windows and DOS software on UEFI systems that do not have a traditional BIOS. ArcaOS includes Odin, based
ArcaOS
Software needed to operate motherboards
s—ROM initialization module for the board; contains entry code for images that start running from ROM Windows CE and Android also use a BSP. BIOS UEFI Cohen
Board_support_package
Software published only in binary code
was eventually adopted by many industry leading hardware manufacturers as UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface). The EDK (EFI Development Kit) was
Binary_blob
7.1 was released on October 6, 2022. UEFI ACPI Peter Bright (30 January 2014). "ARM finally defines a platform as it sets its sights on the server room"
Server Base System Architecture
Server_Base_System_Architecture
2006 Microsoft operating system version
of UEFI support to Windows; support for UEFI on 64-bit platforms was postponed until Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows Server 2008 and 32-bit UEFI would
Windows_Vista
Embedded operating system by Apple
executes the bridgeOS kernel, then the bridgeOS kernel passes off to the UEFI firmware. bridgeOS is based on Apple's watchOS. "10.15.4 Supplemental Update
BridgeOS
Linux distribution
the old bootstrap process. From 2003 until 2008, the Gentoo Reference Platform (GRP) was a snapshot of prebuilt packages that users could quickly install
Gentoo_Linux
Non-Apple computer running macOS
deploying Mac OS X v10.7 image on a flash drive, and booting from it via XPC UEFI Bootloader (See DUET below). After some changes were made to the Chameleon
Hackintosh
Unix-like, desktop-oriented operating system
installation is needed in order to install UEFI support as it requires the creation of a small FAT partition. The current UEFI does not support secure boot. Screenshot
TrueOS
Mid-weight family of operating systems
10, kernel updates, bug fixes, and language updates. UEFI Manager, a new app for managing UEFI settings. Many new applications in the MX 'test' repository
MX_Linux
2021 Microsoft operating system version
considerations. The operating system requires features such as UEFI, Secure Boot, and Trusted Platform Module (TPM) version 2.0. Official support is limited to
Windows_11
Means of compromising computer security by restarting the computer
performing a memory dump using a removable USB flash drive. A mitigation such as UEFI Secure Boot or similar boot verification approaches can be effective in preventing
Cold_boot_attack
64-bit extension of x86 architecture
hardware's initial release because AMD had loaned several machines for the project's hackathon that year. OpenBSD developers have taken to the platform because
X86-64
Irish computer programmer
Award from the Free Software Foundation (FSF) for his work on Secure Boot, UEFI, and the Linux kernel. Garrett was born in Galway, Ireland, and has a PhD
Matthew_Garrett
Smartphone electronics product line
Snapdragon X SoCs are started from the UEFI/BIOS firmware, which can be provided by AMI, Insyde or Phoenix, and the Qualcomm UEFI firmware includes the XBL firmware
List of Qualcomm Snapdragon systems on chips
List_of_Qualcomm_Snapdragon_systems_on_chips
American computer company
motherboard for the people facing the issue. Framework Laptop 13 uses proprietary UEFI firmware, InsydeH2O by Insyde Software, and an open-source embedded controller
Framework_Computer
Main printed circuit board used for a computing device
ConnectedStandby ... Platforms shall be UEFI Class Three (see UEFI Industry Group, Evaluating UEFI using Commercially Available Platforms and Solutions, version
Motherboard
Standard for computer bootstrap code
performed by firmware or software routines PowerPC Reference Platform – Computer system architecture UEFI – Technical specification for firmware architecture "Apple
Open_Firmware
Operating system
USB connected devices. As of version 1.49.60, MenuetOS can be booted on UEFI machines as well using Easyboot. Menuet32 GridWorks "EZ" distribution (comprehensive
MenuetOS
Free and open-source operating system
multiprocessing (SMP) support, DragonFly BSD now limits its support to the x86-64 platform. DragonFly originally ran on the x86 architecture, however, as of version
DragonFly_BSD
Boot for Android devices
Qualcomm platform makes use of the GUID partition table. This specification is part of the UEFI specification, but does not depend on UEFI firmware.
Booting process of Android devices
Booting_process_of_Android_devices
Linux distribution
compatible with UEFI Secure Boot. UEFI Secure Boot is used to protect the operating system installed on the computer's hard drive. As of June 2020, UEFI Secure
Lightweight_Portable_Security
Linux distribution for Apple Silicon-powered Macs
of a desktop based on Arch Linux ARM, a minimal environment, or a basic UEFI environment for installing OpenBSD or alternate Linux distributions with
Asahi_Linux
CBC with predictable IVs: The CBC (cipher block chaining) mode where initialization vectors are statically derived from the sector number and are not secret;
Comparison of disk encryption software
Comparison_of_disk_encryption_software
Linux distribution
using Ventoy to create a bootable USB device. SecureBoot must be disabled in UEFI on the target machine, as Nobara does not support it. "Changelog – Page 4
Nobara_(operating_system)
Process of booting a computer from a network
computers generally provide an option to boot from the network in their BIOS/UEFI via the Preboot Execution Environment (PXE). Post-1998 PowerPC (G3 – G5)
Network_booting
Computing concept
TPM if available and enabled on motherboard Entropy from UEFI interface (if booted from UEFI) RDRAND CPU instruction if available Hardware system clock
Entropy_(computing)
CPU microarchitecture by Intel
applying only to the CPU, RAM, and integrated graphics on Skylake. Through beta UEFI firmware updates, some motherboard vendors, such as ASRock (which prominently
Skylake_(microarchitecture)
Virtualization platform based around Xen hypervisor
31, 2018. Retrieved December 8, 2021. "XCP-ng 8.2 LTS To Bring Rewritten UEFI, Core Scheduling To Fend Off Side Channel Attacks". Phoronix. October 18
XCP-ng
Free and open-source Unix-like operating system
forked. It continues to be actively developed and is available for many platforms, including servers, desktops, handheld devices, and embedded systems.
NetBSD
128-bit number used to identify information in computer systems
rationale for variant 1 (DCE) versions 6 and 7, standardized in RFC 9562. UEFI and ACPI are examples that use GUID. Birthday attack Object identifier (OID)
Universally_unique_identifier
American multinational technology company
Mu, an open source release of the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) core used in Microsoft Surface and Hyper-V products. The project promotes
Microsoft
Linux distribution made by Valve
card (GeForce 400 series and GeForce 500 series) or newer, a USB port and UEFI boot support. A custom installer method was also made available through Valve's
SteamOS
Video board software standard
replaced by the EFI UGA protocol. In widely used UEFI 2.x systems, the INT 10H and the VBE are replaced by the UEFI GOP. Initially, the need for standardization
VESA_BIOS_Extensions
Unofficial name used for Macintosh models that use Intel x86 processors
release of Windows 8 in 2012, Microsoft has required its OEM partners to use UEFI boot process on PCs, which made the differences smaller. However, Apple's
Apple–Intel_architecture
Security-focused Linux-based operating system
qubes have passwordless root access (e.g. passwordless sudo) by default. UEFI Secure Boot is not supported out of the box. The Qubes OS team does not consider
Qubes_OS
Mobile operating system developed by Microsoft
for Windows Phone 8. Similar to Windows Phone 8, Windows Phone 10 has used UEFI with ACPI protocol as its bootloader. Notifications can be synced between
Windows_10_Mobile
Variable-width encoding of Unicode, using one or two 16-bit code units
"\uD834\uDD1E" instead of "\U0001D11E" for U+1D11E. UEFI uses UTF-16 to encode strings by default. Since at least UEFI 2.4, it can use ASCII to encode ASCII-only
UTF-16
American cloud computing and virtualization company
VMware Workstation, with some features not available, including support for UEFI Secure Boot, snapshots, encrypted virtual machines, and some advanced features
VMware
Linux distribution based on musl and BusyBox
Nestor, Marius (4 December 2017). "Security-Oriented Alpine Linux 3.7 Has UEFI Support, GRUB Support in Installer". Softpedia News. Archived from the original
Alpine_Linux
2015 Microsoft operating system version
longer required. As with Windows 8, all certified devices must ship with UEFI Secure Boot enabled by default. Unlike Windows 8, OEMs are no longer required
Windows_10
Lightweight Linux distribution based on Debian
programs from a list Q4OS Welcome Screen, which helps the user with some initial tweaks Stable versions of Q4OS are derived from Debian's Stable release
Q4OS
Boot loader developed by Apple
introduced in 2006 have a Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) ROM, and use a UEFI-based bootloader named boot.efi rather than BootX. The program
BootX_(Apple)
Computer graphics standard from 1987
for background. For this reason, most modern UEFI boot loaders choose not to utilise VGA text mode; UEFI and any operating systems designed for it tend
VGA_text_mode
Calling conventions used in x86 architecture programming
The Microsoft x64 calling convention is followed on Windows and pre-boot UEFI (for long mode on x86-64). The first four arguments are placed onto the registers
X86_calling_conventions
UDMA—Ultra DMA UDP—User Datagram Protocol UEBA—User and entity behavior analytics UEFI—Unified Extensible Firmware Interface UEM—Unified endpoint management UHF—Ultra
List of computing and IT abbreviations
List_of_computing_and_IT_abbreviations
Type of subroutine
migrated from one platform to another, thunks have been essential to support legacy software written for the older platforms. UEFI CSM is another example
Thunk
Interface used for connecting storage devices
emulated. UEFI An open source NVMe driver for UEFI called NvmExpressDxe is available as part of EDKII, the open-source reference implementation of UEFI. The
NVM_Express
Chinese multinational technology company
a new feature in Windows 8, Windows Platform Binary Table, which allows executable files to be stored within UEFI firmware for execution on startup, and
Lenovo
Standardized way to automatically access information about a memory module
computers with DDR4 or DDR5 DIMM, the UEFI/BIOS will mark SPD EEPROM as read-only if the boot-time memory initialization is completed. This makes software
Serial_presence_detect
Operating system
complete gnu toolchain and SDL2 having been ported and experimental smp and UEFI support having been added. It can be installed on most IBM PC compatibles
AROS Research Operating System
AROS_Research_Operating_System
Object-based surround sound technology
licensed Dolby Atmos features and fused Dolby related license keys into their UEFI/BIOS; the Dolby related audio drivers are needed to be installed in Windows
Dolby_Atmos
Firmware Interface (UEFI) or BIOS), which the kernel parses. ACPI then executes the desired operations (such as the initialization of hardware components)
History_of_personal_computers
Disk encryption software for Microsoft Windows
encryption have changed, requiring a TPM 1.2 or 2.0 module with PCR 7 support, UEFI Secure Boot, and that the device meets Modern Standby requirements or HSTI
BitLocker
Linux distribution by Intel
requirements are SSE4 and CLMUL (carry-less multiplication), as well as UEFI. Clear Linux OS uses reference stacks to install images that are optimized
Clear_Linux_OS
Family of backward-compatible assembly languages
code. With a computer running UEFI, the UEFI firmware (except CSM and legacy Option ROM), the UEFI boot loader and the UEFI operating system kernel all
X86_assembly_language
File system for CD-R and CD-ROM optical discs
if they were booted from a hard or floppy disk. UEFI systems also accept El Torito records, as platform 0xEF. The record is expected to be a disk image
ISO_9660
Hardware-assisted virtualization on x86/x86-64 CPUs
to the CPU support, both motherboard chipset and system firmware (BIOS or UEFI) need to fully support the IOMMU I/O virtualization functionality for it
X86_virtualization
Family of instruction set architectures
The System Management Mode (SMM) is only used by the system firmware (BIOS/UEFI), not by operating systems and applications software. The SMM code is running
X86
Free and open-source Unix-like operating system
for supported platforms. Since FreeBSD 13 the focus has been on x86-64 and AArch64 platforms which have Tier 1 support, and 32-bit platforms no longer have
FreeBSD
Low-bandwidth computer motherboard bus
devices or specific models of TPM are connected, the host firmware (BIOS, UEFI) image will include a static description of any devices and their I/O addresses
Low_Pin_Count
List of software distributions using the Linux kernel
distribution that emphasizes free software. It supports many hardware platforms. Debian and distributions based on it use the .deb package format and
List_of_Linux_distributions
Relationship between the technology company and the open source software paradigm
Command-line application for creating crash dumps during a CPU spike Project Mu – UEFI core used in Microsoft Surface and Hyper-V products Project Verona – Experimental
Microsoft_and_open_source
2012 device-oriented operating system from Microsoft
WoA devices would use UEFI firmware and have a software-based Trusted Platform Module to support device encryption and UEFI Secure Boot. ACPI is also
Windows_RT
December 2018, Microsoft announced Project Mu, an open source release of the UEFI core used in Microsoft Surface and Hyper-V products. The project promotes
History_of_Microsoft
Line of computer servers
some of new features introduced in Gen9, primarily the availability of a UEFI boot option. In July 2013, HP announced a new blade server-based ProLiant
ProLiant
Linux-based operating system developed by Google
device must be bootable Full administrator access to the system BIOS or UEFI x86-64 processor from either Intel or AMD Minimum of 4GB system memory (RAM)
ChromeOS
Line of servers by Lenovo
(Pentium, Celeron and Core i3 models) Trusted Platform Module Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) Weight: up to 28.66 lbs (13 kg) Dimensions:
ThinkSystem
2020 video game by Riot Games
Windows 11 if the system does not have a Trusted Platform Module (TPM) 2.0 compliant cryptoprocessor and UEFI secure boot enabled, as mandated by Microsoft's
Valorant
Firewall distribution
OPNsense. OPNsense has a web-based interface and can be used on the x86-64 platform. Along with acting as a firewall, it has traffic shaping, load balancing
OPNsense
Computer hardware interface
peripherals, exposing subtle bugs and vulnerabilities. Some motherboard and UEFI implementations offer Kernel DMA Protection. Intel VT-d-based direct memory
Thunderbolt_(interface)
Linux distribution based on Arch Linux with rolling releases
2014-02-23 3.10.30 Support for LUKS and LVM partition encryption, improved UEFI support, improved filesystem detection and handling. Unsupported: 0.8.10
Manjaro
Free general-purpose operating system
and graphical infrastructure. Among the main changes were the addition of UEFI Secure Boot support, the enabling of AppArmor by default, and the adoption
Debian
Real-time operating system (RTOS) software
security enhancement based on the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) standard. It works by safeguarding the Basic Input/Output System (BIOS)
Junos_OS
Life cycle systems management software
also includes a web front-end, a command line interface, and a REST API. Initial development on Foreman started in July 2009 under a different project name
Foreman_(software)
Computer security exploit
susceptible to disturbance errors, but it only works if the computer boots UEFI; without UEFI, it boots an older version with no hammer test. Memory protection
Row_hammer
Desktop operating system based on Ubuntu
hardware improvements included the introduction of official ARM64 builds for UEFI devices and support for fractional display scaling. The update also added
Elementary_OS
Linux distribution
and it can run apt-get. The LinuxConsole 2.5 release added support for UEFI, and the 32bit version was the last one to support non-PAE hardware. LinuxConsole
LinuxConsole
Discontinued computer memory type
SSDs—the ability to be plugged into the hardware, operating system, BIOS/UEFI, and driver support for NVMe, and adequate cooling. Optane SSDs are therefore
3D_XPoint
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