Chapter 8 – DXE Basics: Core, Dispatching, and Drivers
Vincent Zimmer, Suresh Marisetty, Michael Rothman · 2017
Summary In conclusion, the DXE phase encompasses the establishing of the entire infrastructure necessary for UEFI compliant components to operate. This includes the establishment of the service tables and other requisite architectural protocols. As the DXE phase completes and passes control to the BDS, the platform then proceeds to complete any initialization required to launch of boot target.