Tiancore.org
About 7 years ago Intel has started an initiative to replace the legacy BIOS, a 25 year old piece of system software that was pioneered by IBM and has been patched and awkwardly extended ever since. The prject is called EFI - Extensible Firmware Interface.
EFI introduces structure, true extensibility and open specification to the field that has been driven by legacy requirements and tribal knowledge instead of the specicification. It seems like Intel is releasing the project to the open source comunity.
First, with the uefi.org. The consortium is charged with responsibility to take the original EFI specification and maintain it under the new name - Unified EFI. The consortium has already released a spec UEFI 2.0.
Now, and this might be news to just me, Intel has released the code for the EFI Framework under the name TianoCore.
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System Program: a program, as an operating system, compiler, or utility program, that controls some aspect of the operation of a computer (opposed to application program).
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