A New Graphical User Interface Solution NUWA for EFI/TIANO
Hai Wang, Sun Yuan · Microcomputer applications · 2007
The extensible firmware interface (EFI) is a brand new model for the interface between operating system and plat- form firmware.It provides a standard environment for running pre-boot applications and booting operating system.TIANO is the update of EFI 1.10 specification by Intel,which performs the full range of operations that are required to initialize the plat- form from turning on power to the operating of system.The present TIANO Shell still adopts a console UT which is analogous to DOS and not friendly.A new GUI solution for TIANO called NUWA which shows the great advantages of next generation BIOS is proposed herein.Experimental results showed that NUWA can play the full role of a friendly GUI due to its small size, complete functions,friendly interface and strong extensibility,and so that it has a great future.