EFIS002 Fall 06

Mobile Platform Usage of UEFI
and the Framework Technology
Isaac Oram
Mobile Platform Software Architect
EFIS002
© 2006 Intel Corporation

Agenda
y Intel Mobile Overview

y Current Mobile Framework Uses
y Mobile Framework Examples
y Mobile Platform Outlook
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Intel Mobile Overview

– Intel Mobile BIOS Background
– Why is Framework Important
– Mobile Strategy for Framework Utilization
– Expectations
– Intended Mobile Results
4
Intel Mobile BIOS Background
y Silicon and technology enabling

– Silicon
– Initiatives
– Platforms
– Products
y Customer support
– Reference Specifications (EDS)
– BIOS Writer’s Guides (BWG)
– BIOS Specification Updates (BSU)
– Reference Code
– Customer Reference Board
y Mobile Complexity
– More than desktop, less than server
– More platform level interaction/vertical integration
– More of a closed box system
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– Silicon
– Initiatives
– Platforms
– Products
y Customer support
– Reference Code
y Mobile Complexity
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– Silicon
– Initiatives
– Platforms
– Products
y Customer support
– Reference Code
y Mobile Complexity
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Why is Framework Important
y Legacy BIOS impacting innovation

– Proprietary code bases limit sharing – PMM, PCI, BBS, EDD
– Option ROM infrastructure is limited
– Difficult to create industry standards for BIOS
y A public industry standard architecture is a solution
– Provides a vehicle to enable all customers
– Enables us to deliver more software support
– Intel® Platform Innovation Framework for EFI
– The architecture is available today
– The infrastructure is available today
– The basis for the UEFI/PIWG architecture
– Provides the minimum infrastructure
– Supports corporate intellectual property concerns
y Complementary to SMBIOS, ACPI, and OS driver models
– Supports current legacy interfaces, legacy software, current operating
systems
It is only software…
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Mobile Strategy For Framework

Utilization
1. Support Intel® Platform Innovation Framework
for EFI architecture specifications
– Eventually UEFI PIWG
– http://www.intel.com/technology/framework
2. Use EDK “Green H” source code
– Use of a common baseline:
– Validation leverage
– Code re-use
– http://www.tianocore.org
3. Use Self-Certification Testing to verify
compliance
– http://www.uefi.org
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Utilization
– Code re-use
compliance
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Utilization
– Code re-use
compliance
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Utilization
– Code re-use
compliance
3 Pronged Approach
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Common Baseline
Intel BIOS Vendor Customer
EDK Foundation Code
Open Source Intel 13 BIOS Vendor Customer

Defined Architecture
UEFI and Framework Architectures

Add Silicon
Silicon Silicon Silicon

Component Component Component
Modules Modules Modules
Intel Silicon Code

Add Additional Features
Platform Drivers Platform Drivers Platform Drivers

Hardware Hardware Hardware
Custom or Purchased

Verify
Platform Drivers Platform Drivers Platform Drivers

Hardware Hardware Hardware
SCT Verify Interface Implementations

Expectations
y Binary-only distribution model won’t work in BIOS

– Early board/silicon issues
– Frequent changes throughout product lifecycle
y Framework offers opportunities
– Implement silicon support once, not once per BIOS code
base
– Reduce or eliminate integration efforts
– Improve support for power on, launch gating issues, etc
y Long term outlook
– Core BIOS functionality = source + binary
– IHV/ISV features, extended features – may move to
binary
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Intended Mobile Results

Reference Code
MRC
Power Management
ACPI
ICH
MCH
Initiatives
Standards
More Reference Code

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Reference Code
MRC Fix
Power Management
ACPI
Bug Test
ICH
MCH
Initiatives Deliver
Standards
Faster Silicon Support

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Reference Code
MRC Fix
Power Management
ACPI
Bug Test
ICH
MCH
Initiatives Deliver
Standards
Develop, Integrate, Validate, Product
Innovate Integrate, Validate, Product
Improved Products
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Mobile Framework Goals Summary
y Customer Support for Intel Silicon

y Move to an Industry Standard
y More, Better, Faster
Framework Allows Increased Customer

Support and Enabling
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Current Mobile Framework Uses

– Use Classifications
– Customer Reference Boards
– Concept Designs
– Mobile Designs
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Framework Use Classifications
y Intel Mobile Silicon Support Modules

– Provide key silicon code
– Changes returned to Intel
– Processor and chipset
y Mobile Framework Reference Code
– New Initiatives and Technologies
– Not specifically tied to Intel Silicon
– Industry standards
y Binary Products
– RAID, Robson – eventually replace option ROM
– BIOS images
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Mobile Customer Reference Board
y Ships with a Framework implementation

y BIOS Vendor support vehicle
y Customer reference design for HW and SW
y Prototyping and software development
y Validation of silicon, compatibility, platform
and initiatives
CRB Key to Delivering Silicon

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Concept Designs
Used for Prototype and Validation Designs
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Mobile Designs
y Shipping Products y Future Reference Code

– ICH
– MCH
– Processor Power
Management
– Intel® Active
Management
Technology
– TPM 1.2
– Thermal
–…
Framework is in use Proving and
Shipping Intel Mobile Silicon
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Reference Code Examples

y Reference Code Examples
– ICH8M Reference Code
– Power Management Reference Code
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ICH8M Example
IchInit (BWG, BSU)
DMI
PCI Bus
PciExpress
LCI
GLCI GbE PHY*
PATA
Intel® PCIE x1
Expresscard
Expresscard
SM Bus 2.0
GPIO
ICH8M
Power Management
SPI
SPI Flash
Flash WLAN
LPC I/F
Super
Super I/O
I/O HD Audio
CODEC
TPM
TPM
FWHx
FWHx
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ICH8M Example
IchInit (BWG, BSU)
DMI
PCI Bus
PciExpress
LCI
GLCI GbE PHY*
PATA
Intel® PCIE x1
Expresscard
Expresscard
SM Bus 2.0
GPIO
ICH8M
Power Management
SPI
SPI Flash
Flash WLAN
LPC I/F
Super
Super I/O
I/O HD Audio
CODEC
TPM
TPM
FWHx
FWHx
IchSmiDispatcher
SmmAccess
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ICH8M Example
IchInit (BWG, BSU)
DMI
PCI Bus
PciExpress
LCI
GLCI GbE PHY*
PATA
Intel® PCIE x1
Expresscard
Expresscard
SMBus SM Bus 2.0 ICH8M
GPIO
Power Management
SPI
SPI Flash
Flash WLAN
SPI LPC I/F

Super
Super I/O
I/O HD Audio
CODEC
TPM
TPM
FWHx
FWHx
IchSmiDispatcher
SmmAccess
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ICH8M Example
IchInit (BWG, BSU)
DMI
PataController
(UEFI) PCI Bus
PciExpress
LCI
SataController GLCI GbE PHY*
PATA
(UEFI)
Intel® PCIE x1
Expresscard
Expresscard
SMBus SM Bus 2.0 ICH8M
GPIO
Power Management
SPI
SPI Flash
Flash WLAN
SPI LPC I/F

Super
Super I/O
I/O HD Audio
CODEC
TPM
TPM
FWHx
FWHx
IchSmiDispatcher
SmmAccess
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ICH8M Example
Existing Interfaces Documented in:
EFI_IDE_CONTROLLER_INIT_PROTOCOL Framework IDE Controller Initialization Specification
EFI_LEGACY_INTERRUPT_PROTOCOL Framework Compatibility Support Module Specification
EFI_SMM_USB_DISPATCH_PROTOCOL Framework System Management Mode Core Interface Specification
EFI_SMM_SX_DISPATCH_PROTOCOL Framework System Management Mode Core Interface Specification
SMM_SW_DISPATCH_PROTOCOL Framework System Management Mode Core Interface Specification
EFI_SMM_GPI_DISPATCH_PROTOCOL Framework System Management Mode Core Interface Specification
EFI_SMM_ICHN_DISPATCH_PROTOCOL Framework System Management Mode Core Interface Specification
EFI_SMM_POWER_BUTTON_DISPATCH_ Framework System Management Mode Core Interface Specification

PROTOCOL
EFI_SMM_PERIODIC_TIMER_DISPATCH_ Framework System Management Mode Core Interface Specification

PROTOCOL
EFI_RESET_ARCH_PROTOCOL Framework Driver Execution Environment Core Interface

Specification
EFI_TIMER_ARCH_PROTOCOL Framework Driver Execution Environment Core Interface
Specification
PEI_SMBUS_PPI SMBus PPI Specification
EFI_SMBUS_HC_PROTOCOL SMBus Host Controller Specification
EFI_SMM_CONTROL_PROTOCOL Framework System Management Mode Core Interface Specification
EFI_PCI_HOT_PLUG_INIT_PROTOCOL Framework Hot-Plug PCI Initialization Protocol Specification
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ICH8M Example
New Interfaces: Purpose Phase Optional
Ich8M.h #defines for chipset registers All No
DXE_ICH_POLICY_PROTOCOL API for ICH reference code DXE No

configuration “knobs”
IchLibrary.h Useful library functions All Yes
EFI_ACTIVE_BIOS_PROTOCOL API for switching ICH BIOS area DXE Yes

between LPC, PCI, and SPI
EFI_SERIAL_GPIO_PROTOCOL API for controlling ICH serial GPIO DXE Yes

hardware
EFI_SMM_IO_TRAP_DISPATCH_PROTO API for sharing IO trap hardware SMM Yes
COL
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ICH8M Example
Required Modules Purpose Phase

IchInit BIOS Writer’s Guide configuration DXE
SmartTimer Provides timer architectural protocol DXE
implementation
SmmControl Provides SMM services to core DXE
Reset Provides reset architectural protocol RT
implementation
IchSmiDispatcher Allows SMI handlers to register for ICH SMI SMM
sources
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ICH8M Example
Optional Modules Purpose Phase

IchInit Enables ATA recovery media PEI
Uhci Provides USB recovery media support PEI
Smbus Provides SMBus abstraction/services PEI/DXE
ActiveBios Provides ability to switch memory mapping of DXE
LPC/SPI/PCI to 16MB below 4GB
LegacyInterrupt Legacy boot support DXE
PciHotPlug Hot plug initialization DXE
IdeController EFI 1.10 PATA driver BDS
SataController EFI 1.10 SATA driver BDS
MobileRaid Legacy RAID option ROM CSM
IoTrap Allows sharing of limited IO trapping hardware SMM
IchS3Save Mechanism to capture dynamic state for S3 SMM
resume
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ICH Summary
y Flexible use of modules

y Platform policy configuration knobs
y Useful as a reference for legacy
development
y Documented interfaces
y Integration documentation
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Power Management Example
y Intel expends a large effort developing and

validating power management to provide
the Intel® Centrino® mobile technology
experience
y Legacy reference code design is mature
y Framework uses same design and
validation
y Framework interfaces enable easy
integration of more complete code
– SMM core - Software SMI support – S3 – ACPI
support
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Reference Code Key Points
y We could not do this before

– Too BIOS specific
– Too many different BIOS designs
y Implementation still evolving
– Too complex
y Working
– Customers are benefiting from this code today
Mobile is Leveraging Framework to do

more
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Mobile Platform Outlook

– Platform Feature Overview
– Robson as a Platform Feature
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Intel Platforms
y Intel® Centrino® mobile technology pioneered

the platform trend
y Software was key to the platform from the
beginning
y Trend is for increasing software
y SW + HW = BIOS impact
– Efforts to minimize have been only partially successful –
BIOS remains critical for many platform features
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Robson Platform Feature
y Robson is an example of a platform

technology that requires a platform solution
y Intel Product
– Reference code for BIOS enabling, not for OPROM
– Intellectual property considerations
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Robson Hardware
Robson is a platform based, non-volatile memory,

disk caching technology
• Connects via PCI-E interface
• Intel hardware controller CPU
• HDD Writes are cached in NAND
flash, and are later written to HDD
• HDD Reads are cached in NAND Opt. DRAM
flash Graphics GMCH
• Offers scalable non-volatile
memory sizes
• NAND complexity PCI-E
ICHxM SATA
Robson HDD
HW
NAND NAND
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Robson Software
y BIOS Changes per DFOROM Specification

– PCI 3.0 Firmware (portions)
– OPROM entry change
– INT 19 change
– EDD/pass-through functions
y DFOROM/OPROM
– Large resource requirements
– Multiple hooks
y OS Driver
– All functions are managed by the Robson driver and Intel®
Matrix Storage Manager driver
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Legacy vs. UEFI vs. Framework

Feature Legacy UEFI Framework
Binary Delivery Yes Yes Yes
Provide Required Functionality Yes Yes Yes
Existing BIOS can boot legacy OS No N/A No
Existing BIOS can boot UEFI OS N/A Yes Yes
Pre-boot unlimited (size/resources) No Yes Yes
BIOS UI Integration No No Yes

Pre-boot/OS driver code sharing No Yes Yes
ACPI/SMM/SMBIOS/etc N/A N/A N/A
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Platform Software
y Platform features increasing

y Platform software increasing
y Platform firmware solutions required
y Legacy support required
– Until industry fully adopts UEFI and/or
Framework
– Until something is unreasonable to implement
Framework Advantages Will Grow

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Summary
y Framework Allows Increased Customer

Support and Enabling
y Framework is in use Proving and Shipping
Intel Mobile Silicon
y Mobile is Leveraging Framework to do more
y Framework Advantages Will Grow
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UEFI Testing Event
y In Dupont WA – Week of December 11
y Purpose
– Provide the an opportunity to allow implementers of
UEFI to test their implementations among the UEFI
community
– Testing of UEFI systems and platforms with UEFI Add in
Cards in different configurations for UEFI compliance as
well
– Testing install and boot to a variety of UEFI Operating
systems
y Contact laurie.fleisher@intel.com
y More on this event: www.uefi.org
Your
Your Opportunity
Opportunity to
to Test
Test your
your
A
A unique
unique event
event
Implementation
Implementation
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Essential References and
Resources
y Technical book from Intel Press:
Beyond BIOS: Implementing the Unified
Extensible Firmware Interface with Intel’s
Framework
by Vincent Zimmer, Michael Rothman, and Robert Hale
For more info: www.intel.com/intelpress
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Additional EFI /Framework Sessions
Moscone West 2006:
Session EFI # Company Time
Open Source Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) S005 Intel Done
Developer Kit - What it is and How to Use it
New Firmware Development at Hewlett Packard Hewlett
S001 Done
using EFI and the Framework Packard
Intel Advanced Technology in the Enterprise: Intel & IBM
S004 Done
UEFI Firmware & IBM
Mobile Platform Usage of UEFI and the Intel Mobile
S002 5:00 Wed
Framework Technology
Benefits of Unified Extensible Firmware Interface S003 Intel 8:00 Thu

(UEFI) with Microsoft and Other OS
Q&A open forum C001 Intel 11:00 Thu
More web based info: www.TianoCore.org

www.uefi.org
www.intel.com/technology/framework
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Mobile Platform Usage of UEFI

and the Framework Technology

© 2006 Intel Corporation

y Intel Mobile Overview

y Intel Mobile Overview

Intel Mobile BIOS Background

y Silicon and technology enabling

Intel Mobile BIOS Background

y Silicon and technology enabling

Intel Mobile BIOS Background

y Silicon and technology enabling

Why is Framework Important

y Legacy BIOS impacting innovation

Mobile Strategy For Framework

Mobile Strategy For Framework

Mobile Strategy For Framework

Mobile Strategy For Framework

Intel BIOS Vendor Customer

EDK Foundation Code

Open Source Intel 13 BIOS Vendor Customer

Intel BIOS Vendor Customer

UEFI and Framework Architectures

Open Source Intel 14 BIOS Vendor Customer

Intel BIOS Vendor Customer

Silicon Silicon Silicon

Intel Silicon Code

Open Source Intel 15 BIOS Vendor Customer

Add Additional Features

Intel BIOS Vendor Customer

Platform Drivers Platform Drivers Platform Drivers

Silicon Silicon Silicon

Open Source Intel 16 BIOS Vendor Customer

Intel BIOS Vendor Customer

Platform Drivers Platform Drivers Platform Drivers

Silicon Silicon Silicon

SCT Verify Interface Implementations

Open Source Intel 17 BIOS Vendor Customer

y Binary-only distribution model won’t work in BIOS

Intended Mobile Results

More Reference Code

Intended Mobile Results

Faster Silicon Support

Intended Mobile Results

Develop, Integrate, Validate, Product

Innovate Integrate, Validate, Product

Mobile Framework Goals Summary

y Customer Support for Intel Silicon

Framework Allows Increased Customer

y Intel Mobile Overview

Framework Use Classifications

y Intel Mobile Silicon Support Modules

Mobile Customer Reference Board

y Ships with a Framework implementation

CRB Key to Delivering Silicon

Used for Prototype and Validation Designs

y Shipping Products y Future Reference Code

y Intel Mobile Overview

SPI LPC I/F

SPI LPC I/F

EFI_LEGACY_INTERRUPT_PROTOCOL Framework Compatibility Support Module Specification

EFI_SMM_USB_DISPATCH_PROTOCOL Framework System Management Mode Core Interface Specification

EFI_SMM_SX_DISPATCH_PROTOCOL Framework System Management Mode Core Interface Specification