Acronym Soup: What is BDS?

Acronym Soup: What is BDS?

In today’s “Acronym Soup” blog post, we are back on the BIOS side of things with this question: what is BDS? First, for the answer – which many might have already guessed since it has to do with BIOS: BDS is short for Boot Device Selection. Of...

AMI Announces Support for Marvell ThunderX2 Arm-based Processors

Today, AMI announced support the Marvell® ThunderX2® family of Arm®64 System-on-Chip (SOC) devices with its Aptio® V for Arm64 UEFI BIOS Firmware. Notably, AMI is the first and only Independent Firmware Vendor (IFV) to support the Marvell ThunderX2 family of Arm64...
AMI Announces Redfish 1.5 Support in Aptio V and MegaRAC SP-X

AMI Announces Redfish 1.5 Support in Aptio V and MegaRAC SP-X

Today, AMI announced its full support for the Redfish® 1.5 specification from the DMTF, in its Aptio® V UEFI BIOS Firmware and MegaRAC® SP-X BMC Remote Management Firmware – the most widely used solution in the market today. Redfish is an open industry-standard...
Why Use UEFI Instead of Other Boot Loaders?

Why Use UEFI Instead of Other Boot Loaders?

Before Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI), there was legacy BIOS. You may hear us throwing around the term “legacy BIOS” all the time. Although sometimes we use BIOS and UEFI interchangeably (or sometimes at the same time), the actual term we...