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The interface defined by the EFI specification includes data tables that contain platform information, and boot and runtime services that are available to the OS loader and OS. UEFI firmware provides several technical advantages over a traditional BIOS system:
- Ability to boot from large disks (over 2 TiB) with a GUID Partition Table, GPT.
- CPU-independent architecture
- CPU-independent drivers
- Flexible pre-OS environment, including network capability
- Modular design
Read more about this topic: Unified Extensible Firmware Interface
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