Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI)
EFI is an interface between operating systems and platform firmware. EFI is implemented on HP Itanimum-based systems. There are many components to EFI that can be found on the Intel Web site. At the time of this writing the following is the home URL for EFI: http://www.intel.com/technology/efi/index.htm.
Figure 1-11 shows where EFI fits in between platform firmware and the operating system loader:
Figure 1-11. EFI on HP Itanium-Based Systems
We've covered the HP firmware extensively in this chapter as well as the HP-UX operating system loader. EFI is an additional component that is independent of the operating ...
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