Beyond BIOS Note - Ch1 Introduction

Chapter 1 Introduction

The suddenness of the leap from hardware to software cannot but produce a period of anarchy and collapse, especially in the developed countries.
- Marshall McLuhan

UEFI - UEFI is about booting, or passing control to successive layer of control

PI - PI describes the phase of control from the platform reset and into the success phase of operation

UEFI在於提供介面來讓其他應用來使用系統服務，而PI則在於規劃系統韌體的流程。