UEFI secure boot is a much-discussed mechanism by which a system's firmware will refuse to run a bootloader that is not signed with a recognized key. Its stated purpose is to thwart boot-time malware; ...

UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) is the open, multi-vendor replacement for the aging BIOS standard, which first appeared in IBM computers in 1976. The UEFI standard is extensive, covering ...

We need to map in some memory areas >8MB just to find out how much memory we have, and where it is. (the e820 table doesn't cut it on this hardware) This is only intended for remapping while the ...

The kernel this. The kernel that. People often refer to one operating system's kernel or another without truly knowing what it does or how it works or what it takes to make one. What does it take to ...