Anniversary Day.Next, Arch P*'s, and some stack history
Today makes 16 years at Intel. Sunday is usually my catch-up day for work tasks or extra credit work (e.g., patent drafting), but given that I posted an entry on this day last year, I'll steal a few...
View ArticleA Technical Career Path
I was recently asked to provide a short video on technical leadership and the technical career path. When I asked the opinion of some friends on the subject matter, one response was "tell them it's...
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End of summer '13
The unusually warm summer proved a bit confusing to the psyche. The return of the Pacific Northwest rain of late brings me back to normalcy. I haven't blogged in a while, but I must recommend and...
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Where do I 'sign' up?
This post spends a little time discussing how to get pre-OS independent software vendor (ISV) content ‘signed’/’enrolled’ onto a UEFI Secure Boot protected platform.As a quick background:Intel (R) Boot...
View ArticleConfiguring an IPV6 network boot
Earlier blogs have described the UEFI stack and network booting. This entry will talk about configuration of the boot environment.Specifically, how do you configure a server to provide a netboot6-based...
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Better living through tools
In an earlier post http://vzimmer.blogspot.com/2013/09/end-of-summer-13.html I spoke about architecture versus implementation, and the process of successively refining an architecture to some...
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Invention and Innovation
I recently returned from Shanghai. I was greeted by the following when I boarded the plan from LAX to SH, though.There was little hyperbole in that headline, I'm afraid. Since my first trip to the...
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Technical Communications
My last post talked about invention and innovation http://vzimmer.blogspot.com/2013/12/invention-and-innovation.html, and in that post I mentioned an article from the Harvard Business Review. Touching...
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"Advances in Platform Firmware 'Beyond BIOS'" - 10 years later.....
The last ten years have witnessed remarkable progress in the evolution of standards-based firmware. In this blog posting I review some of the events and changes that have occurred since the paper...
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Anniversary Day .Next .Next
Yesterday makes seventeen years since I started work at Intel. I broke my tradition of blogging on the anniversary day itself given my older age (i.e., I fell asleep before hitting the 'post' button)....
View Article300, networking, FSP, books, and good-byes
It was October of 2012 when I posted http://vzimmer.blogspot.com/2012/10/250.html. Over a year and a half later I have finally hit 300 issued US patents 300 issued. In later posts I talked about...
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Trends and openness
The balmy days of summer have made me reflect upon the past. And colleagues leaving of late make me more thoughtful. This is sort of a twist on the earlier career development talk, but with advice on...
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ToorCamp redux, Upcoming IDF 2014
To lead off today, I was lucky to have the opportunity to speak at ToorCamp this summer, with my talk titled “Secure boot, network boot, verified boot, oh my” http://toorcamp.toorcon.net/talks/#16 and...
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Post-Intel Developer Forum 2014
I would like to thank Tim Lewis for mentioning this blog at http://uefi.blogspot.com/2014/09/new-bios-related-blogs.html. I have dual-posted this item to...
View ArticlePorting to a new architecture
Part of the excitement of working with system firmware includes programming on bare metal. I recall taking an NT Driver class back in 1998 led by some Ex-DEC engineers. The engineer said "programming...
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"So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish"
Yesterday my last day in DuPont after nearly 18 years, 15 of those in the same cube, here at this WA Intel site. Off to work at the Seattle office in early '15. So long, DuPont, and thanks for the...
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Regarding a prediction for 2015
Given it is the final day of 2014, I thought that my final blog of 2014 would treat the year.next which commences in a few hours, maybe with another one of my infamous TL:DR-style postings?...
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Anniversary .next ^3 and 3 behaviors
Today marks eighteen years in my Intel journey, so I am keeping up the tradition of writing a blog entry on this day, as started with http://vzimmer.blogspot.com/2012/02/anniversary-day.html. The title...
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Open Compute Project, CanSecWest and new specifications from the UEFI Forum
"The goal in technical writing is not to be possible to understand, but to be hard to misunderstand."- Cook"Writing is nature's way of letting you know how sloppy your thinking is." -...
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GUIDs, Revisions, Interrupts
This blog will cover a few topics, including GUIDs, Revisions, Hardware Interrupts, and Portable Libraries.GUID versus RevisionTo being, I was recently asked about how one should evolve a protocol...
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