Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) firmware

Any comments on the "Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) firmware" and its ability to preclude booting from alternative operating systems such as Linux, BSD etc., would be greatly appreciated, as per article entitled "Windows ...

Message posted on the September 22nd, 2011 - 6:20 PM ET

Insyde® Software to Demonstrate Leadership in UEFI Client & Server Firmware along with Android™ Solutions at Computex Taipei

Insyde Software, a leading provider of Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) firmware today announced its plans to showcase its newest technologies, as well as the latest examples of customers’ products ...

Press published on the May 24th, 2011 - 7:00 AM ET

UEFI Technology Expands in Mobile Devices and Other Non-PC Market Segments

Unified Extensible Firmware Interface Forum is building and supporting firmware for enhanced security and embedding in mobile devices and non-PC applications.

Press published on the May 8th, 2013 - 9:00 AM ET

UEFI Technology Adopted by Linux Community

Unified Extensible Firmware Interface Forum gains momentum as use of UEFI specifications increases in Linux-based operating systems, such as Canonical's Ubuntu 12.10, Fedora 18 and OpenSUSE 12.3.

Press published on the March 19th, 2013 - 11:00 AM ET

UEFI Forum Releases UEFI 2.3.1 Specification Update and Schedules UEFI Summer Summit Interoperability & Education Event

Specification Update Benefits Windows 8 & Open Source OS Implementations Microsoft to Host UEFI Summer Summit, July 16-20, 2012 in Redmond, WA.

Press published on the July 3rd, 2012 - 11:00 AM ET

Insyde® Software Expands UEFI Firmware Offering for Intel® AtomTM Platforms

Full Featured InsydeH2OTM UEFI BIOS Helps Embedded Customers Deliver High Performance Products On-Time.

Press published on the September 13th, 2011 - 7:00 AM ET

Insyde® Software Delivers InsydeH2OTM UEFI BIOS for the 2nd Generation Intel® Core™ Processor Family

The Industry’s Most Trusted UEFI Firmware Adopted by Leading OEMs and ODMs to Fully Leverage Next Generation Intel Desktop, Mobile and Embedded Platforms.

Press published on the January 5th, 2011 - 1:05 PM ET

Insyde® Software Delivers InsydeH2O™ UEFI BIOS for High Performance AMD A-Series APUs

AMD APUs Combined with Customizable InsydeH2O UEFI Firmware Gives Mainstream Notebook and Desktop Makers Increased Design Flexibility.

Press published on the June 13th, 2011 - 10:05 PM ET

Re: Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) firmware

Thanks for the quick reply, John. It is a long time ago that I hacked any BIOS, and then it was only with tools made available by the manufacturer to boot the machine in the first place, that I have forgotten / no knowledge of how this may be ...

Message posted on the September 22nd, 2011 - 7:10 PM ET

New vicious UEFI bootkit vuln found for Windows 8

<http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/09/19/win8_rootkit/> <quote> Security researchers have discovered security shortcomings in Windows 8 that create a means to infect the upcoming operating system with rootkit-style malware. Italian ...

Message posted on the September 19th, 2012 - 11:25 AM ET

[Long] UEFI support

Hash: SHA512 Hello all, UEFI (often called EFI, which was the name of its previous version) is a new firmware interface, which is expected to replace the BIOS on new PCs, as at has already done so on Apple PCs. While modern operating system do not ...

Message posted on the January 6th, 2012 - 9:50 AM ET

Why the Windows 8 UEFI secure boot thing has me worried

Hash: SHA1 NotDashEscaped: You need GnuPG to verify this message http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2011/sep/28/windows-8-secure-boot-worry?newsfeed=true "Windows 8 Unified Extensible Firmware Interface secure boot requirement ...

Message posted on the September 30th, 2011 - 2:28 PM ET

[PATCH 1/3] efi: Add support for a UEFI variable filesystem

From: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com> The existing EFI variables code only supports variables of up to 1024 bytes. This limitation existed in version 0.99 of the EFI specification, but was removed before any full releases. Since variables ...

Message posted on the October 5th, 2012 - 3:00 AM ET

[PATCH] iBFT features: Update to iBFT 1.03 and separate ibft parsing from sysfs interface

The following changes since commit 94b849aaf6e22ab7bf54b0d0377a882d4892396d Merge branch 'fix/hda' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6 are available in the git repository at: ...

Message posted on the May 11th, 2010 - 4:50 PM ET

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