UEFI vs legacy BIOS

Technical Note: UEFI BIOS vs. Legacy BIOS, Advantech(EN)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRMIvY7BiL4

System BIOS

BIOS Session 1 - System Memory Map

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hr1aXf2ark 

BIOS Session 2 - Legacy BIOS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4SESHBT6C0

BIOS Session 3 - HIgh Level Overview of the BOOT flow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzEoSLfbFuA

UEFI

UEFI Specifications:

http://www.uefi.org/specifications

EDK Project page

http://www.tianocore.org/

Training material:

Online Training:

“Defining Specifications’ Role in Firmware” and Lessons 1-5 of “Implementing the Boot Process.” http://tianocore.sourceforge.net/wiki/UEFI_EDKII_Learning_Dev

I Recommend Downloading the Zip File** for each of the lessons

Latest Training Material:

–             https://sourceforge.net/projects/edk2/files/Training/TrainingMaterial/Lab-Material-FW.zip/download 

–             http://sourceforge.net/projects/edk2/files/Training/TrainingMaterial/Presentations141209.zip/download

–             Contains source code & documents needed for labs

–             Creates C:\FW sub-directory automatically

–             Follow the _UEFI_Lab_Guide.pdf for getting started

Getting Started Writing Application:

http://tianocore.sourceforge.net/wiki/Getting_Started_Writing_Simple_Application

Use Visual Studio command prompt to compile or Run.

Mailing List:

http://sourceforge.net/p/edk2/mailman/?source=navbar

It has a good archive. Search archive is very helpful.

EDK2 Documents:

https://github.com/tianocore/tianocore.github.io/wiki/EDK_II_Documents

Intel UEFI course page including UEFI shell:

https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/uefi-framwork-course-contents

Basic instructions for using EFI - Whitepaper - Intel

http://download.intel.com/support/motherboards/server/sb/efi_whitepaper.pdf

Installing windows in UEFI mode

https://www.thomas-krenn.com/en/wiki/Installing_Windows_in_UEFI-mode

UEFI network stack getting started guide:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/network-io/files/Documents/EFINetworkStackGettingStarted.pdf

UEFI Driver Wizard Training (Intel, July 2013)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhmO2_6tGx0

UEFI HII Training (Intel, July 2013)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11PIctg6pz8