Quick Boot: A Guide for Embedded Firmware Developers, Second Edition

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. 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.

Quick Boot旨在為開發人員提供典型啟動序列的基本架構和細節的背景知識。更具體地說，本書描述了基本初始化序列，使開發人員能夠在沒有完整功能系統BIOS的情況下啟動操作系統。各種規範提供了代碼庫和標準的基礎知識。本書還提供了對於更高級開發人員的優化技巧的見解。有了適當的背景信息、手頭上的所需規範和勤奮，許多開發人員可以使用本書創建優質的啟動解決方案。

Pete Dice is Engineering Director of Verifone, where he manages OS Engineering teams in Dublin, Ireland and Riga Latvia. Dice successfully launched Intel(R) Quark(TM), Intel's first generation SoC as well as invented the Intel(R) Galileo(TM) 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.

Pete Dice是Verifone的工程總監，負責管理位於愛爾蘭都柏林和拉脫維亞里加的作業系統工程團隊。Dice成功推出了Intel(R) Quark(TM)，這是Intel的第一代SoC，並發明了Intel(R) Galileo(TM)開發板，並開發了一種免費軟體策略，以在產品線上擴展Intel IoT閘道功能。他還被認為是Moon Island軟體堆疊和商業模式的架構師。