Tuesday, December 21, 2010

IPv6 Ready Logo

The UEFI network stack implementation at http://www.tianocore.org, which implements the API's in the UEFI2.3 specification at http://www.uefi.org, including http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5970.txt IPv6 netboot, has achieved IPv6 Ready logo -


https://www.ipv6ready.org/db/index.php/public/logo/01-000557/


This is an important milestone in the journey toward pre-OS network boot, provisioning, recovery, and other OS-absent networking applications.

Thursday, December 16, 2010

2nd edition of Beyond BIOS is now available

An updated version of the 'Beyond BIOS' book is available. It can be found at Intel Press or from Amazon.

This new edition will describe the latest updates to the UEFI 2.3 and Platform Initialization (PI) 1.2 specifications, in addition to details on embedded, system-on-a-chip (SOC), fast-boot, security, and manageability.

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

IPv6 netboot

Check-out the newly-published http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5970.txt. This describes how to perform a network boot on IPv6.