Enter UEFI, the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface. UEFI is a much more sophisticated approach to low-level system management. You can think of it as a miniature operating system that sits on top of the motherboard s firmware, rather than being squeezed inside it like a PC BIOS.
It s therefore debatable whether or not it s really meaningful to talk about a UEFI BIOS This means that UEFI can be just as powerful as a real OS. It can access all the memory installed in a system, and make use of its own little disk storage space a sequestered area of onboard flash storage or hard disk space called the EFI System Partition. New modules can be easily added (hence Extensible ); this includes device drivers for motherboard components and external peripherals, so user options can be presented in an attractive graphical front-end and controlled with the mouse. On touchscreen hardware, it s possible to change system settings by swiping and tapping. It s all a far cry from the clunky blue configuration screen of most BIOS implementations.
What s more, since UEFI is a software environment, its high-level functions aren t tied to any particular platform: right now, UEFI works on ARM devices as well as regular PC hardware, and there s no reason it can t be compiled for any other architecture that may come along.
Title : UEFI BIOS
Description : Enter UEFI, the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface. UEFI is a much more sophisticated approach to low-level system management. Yo...
