Acknowledgements

The authors recognize the efforts and contribution of the two men and a dog: Mark Doran, Ken Reneris, and Andrew Fish, who conceived and hatched EFI.

The authors recognize and thank the other original Framework (Tiano) architects Andrew Fish, Bob Hale, Mike Kinney, Barnes Cooper, Will Stevens, Krithivas, ER Uber, Mahesh Natu, Rahul Khanna, Jim Ewertz, Kirk Brannock, and others whose names are lost to time and the team’s intrepid leader, Mark Doran. We thank Isaac Oram, John Lambino, and the entire Tiano Architecture Team (TAT) team for fleshing out and enhancing the architecture. Thank you to the Tiano engineering team for their patience while implementing the first versions and to our internal and external customers. The innovation in this book is from these fertile brains. Also, many of this team will recall over ten years of “design discussions” at R&R.

We thank our managers, past and present, for giving us the chance and the time to work on the architecture and this book including Doug Fisher, Richard Wirt, Stu Goossen, Mike Richmond, Kah Loh, Jeff Griffen, Michael Greene, Ju Lu, and Ron Story.

We acknowledge the ever-supportive marketing team: Shala, Laurie, Harry, Fadi, Elmer, and Bailey.

No Intel book is published without peer review. We’d like to thank all the reviewers for identifying errors and for providing valuable insight and encouragement along the way. Without their help, this book would not have been a success. From Intel, these individuals participated, at one time or another, in the review of this project: Rob Branch, Mallik Bulusu, Brad Davis, Michael Krau, John Suresh Kumar, Matthew Parrish, Mike Richmond, Lee Rosenbaum, and Sudhakar Otturu. Other reviewers included Cameron Esfahani from Apple Computer Corporation, Todd Greene from QLogic Corporation, Penny Huang from Micro-Star International Company, Limited, Jimmy Hwang from American Megatrends, Incorporated, and Dong Wei from Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.

A book like this describes the efforts of a large number of talented individuals. The authors would like to thank all of them for their efforts and support. Please accept our apologies if we missed you. We can only say that space is as limited here as it is in ROMs and time as limited here as it is in schedules. We’ll try to fix it in the next release.