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Record Nr.

UNINA9910796615803321

Autore

Dice Pete <1970->

Titolo

Quick boot : a guide for embedded firmware developers / / Pete Dice

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boston : , : DeG Press, , [2018]

ISBN

1-5015-0672-2

Edizione

[Second edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (282 pages)

Disciplina

004

Soggetti

Computer firmware

Computer bootstrapping

Basic input-output system

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Foreword from the First Edition -- Chapter 1: System Firmware's Missing Link -- Chapter 2: Intel Architecture Basics -- Chapter 3: System Firmware Terms and Concepts -- Chapter 4: Silicon-Specific Initialization -- Chapter 5: Industry Standard Initialization -- Chapter 6: System Firmware Debug Techniques -- Chapter 7: Shells and Native Applications -- Chapter 8: Loading an Operating System -- Chapter 9: The Intel® Architecture Boot Flow -- Chapter 10: Bootstrapping Embedded -- Chapter 11: Intel's Fast Boot Technology -- Chapter 12: Collaborative Roles in Quick Boot -- Chapter 13: Legal Decisions -- Appendix A: Generating Serial Presence Detection Data for Down Memory Configurations -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Quick Boot is designed to give developers a background in the basic architecture and details of a typical boot sequence. More specifically, this book describes the basic initialization sequence that allows developers the freedom to boot an OS without a fully featured system BIOS. Various specifications provide the basics of both the code bases and the standards. This book also provides insights into optimization techniques for more advanced developers. With proper background information, the required specifications on hand, and diligence, many developers can create quality boot solutions using this text. Pete Dice is Engineering Director of Verifone, where he manages OS Engineering



teams in Dublin, Ireland and Riga Latvia. Dice successfully launched Intel® Quark™, Intel's first generation SoC as well as invented the Intel® Galileo™ development board and developed a freemium SW strategy to scale Intel IoT gateway features across product lines. He is also credited with architecting the "Moon Island" software stack and business model.