Unified extensible firmware interface (uefi) driver and protocol

A method, comprising:

• receiving an invocation at a Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) wrapper driver via a first protocol produced by the UEFI wrapper driver, the invocation indicating to perform at least one operation;
• loading a binary image of a worker application;
• receiving a query from the binary image of the worker application via a second protocol produced by the UEFI wrapper driver;
• in response to the query, sending parameters needed to perform the at least one operation from the UEFI wrapper driver to the worker application, and
• calling, with the worker application, at least one function of a software library to perform the at least one operation based on the parameters,
• wherein, the UEFI wrapper driver, the worker application and the at least one function are executed on a processor.

A computer program product, embodied on a non-transitory computer-readable medium, comprising:

• computer code to execute a Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) wrapper driver, the UEFI wrapper driver producing a first protocol and a second protocol
• computer code to execute a client application, the client application consuming the first protocol to invoke at least one operation of the first protocol,
• computer code to load a binary image of a worker application with the UEFI wrapper driver in response to the at least one operation being invoked;
• and
• computer code to execute the worker application, the worker application calling at least one function of a software library to perform the at least one operation.