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Does UEFI start the same way as BIOS (firmware on LPC bus, PC starts at 0xFFFFFFF0)? Or is there a different top level mechanism? My understanding was that the
by jjoonathan 8y ago
Does UEFI start the same way as BIOS (firmware on LPC bus, PC starts at 0xFFFFFFF0)? Or is there a different top level mechanism?
My understanding was that the CPU still starts in 16 bit real mode (with an evil hack to sign-extend IP) but that by the time UEFI hands off to code on a hard drive it is in long mode.
- zaarn 8y agoUEFI starts the same way but yeah, it hands off 64bit (or 32bit if you have a 32bit UEFI).