Название: Quick Boot: A Guide for Embedded Firmware Developers, 2nd edition
Автор: Pete Dice
Издательство: De Gruyter
Год: 2018
Страниц: 428
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf
Размер: 20.81 MB

Quick Boot is designed to give developers a background in the basic architecture and details of a typical boot sequence. More specifically, this book describes the basic initialization sequence that allows developers the freedom to boot an OS without a fully featured system BIOS. Various specifications provide the basics of both the code bases and the standards. This book also provides insights into optimization techniques for more advanced developers. With proper background information, the required specifications on hand, and diligence, many developers can create quality boot solutions using this text. Pete Dice is Engineering Director of Verifone, where he manages OS Engineering teams in Dublin, Ireland and Riga Latvia. Dice successfully launched Intel Quark, Intel's first generation SoC as well as invented the Intel Galileo development board and developed a freemium SW strategy to scale Intel IoT gateway features across product lines. He is also credited with architecting the "Moon Island" software stack and business model.

This book is designed to give a background in the basic architecture and details of a typical boot sequence to the beginner firmware developer. Various specifications provide the basics of both the code bases and the standards. While a summary is provided in the chapters below, there is no substitute for reading and comprehending the specifications and developer's manuals first-hand. This book also provides insights into optimization techniques to the more advanced developers.