Wow, I take the week of CES off and looks what happens … everybody is talking about UEFI. My Twitter account exploded with articles on UEFI from around the world (thank you Google Translate, since I can’t read French, German, Japanese, Chinese or Indonesian).   The big focus seems to be on the cool graphical interfaces companies like Asus and MSI are adding to UEFI on their desktop platforms. And I admit, they’re pretty cool … the BIOS setup menu has been pretty muc...Read More

One of the reasons I started this blog is to take some of the mystery out of BIOS, which is often portrayed as arcane computing … some combination of technology and black magic. I think it’s valuable to take time in this forum to expose the type of tools available to the BIOS developer. Today’s article focuses on how an Independent BIOS Vendor (IBV) handles debugging BIOS issues.   The goal for any BIOS vendor is to deliver a product that doesn’t require extensive d...Read More