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Brief Intro to (U)EFI: What is <strong>it</strong>?<br />
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- (Unified) Extensible Firmware Interface<br />
- modern industrial standard for x86 firmware<br />
- in<strong>it</strong>ially developed by Intel as BIOS replacement for IA64<br />
- used by Macs since 2007, PCs since 2009<br />
- performs HW in<strong>it</strong>ialization required to start an OS<br />
- modular and feature rich, uses well defined and known formats<br />
- mostly wr<strong>it</strong>ten in C, much easier to develop as legacy BIOS