Quick Boot

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(TM), Intel's first generation SoC as well as invented the Intel® Galileo(TM) 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.

Foreword Kelly Steele, BIOS Architect, Insyde Software, Inc., Beaverton, Oregon

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 Fast Boot

Chapter 12 Collaborative Roles in Quick Boot

Chapter 13 Legal Decisions

Appendix A Generating Serial Presence Detection Data for

Down Memory Configurations