The Polymath's Playbook

Lessons learned, stuff broken, and the occasional victory. Two decades of strategic leadership meets hands-on engineering, from boardroom decisions to firmware debugging.

Embedded Systems

Negotiating PoE+ Power in the Pre‑Boot Environment

Solving a boot-time power challenge on PoE+ x86 systems by creating our own UEFI app to handle LLDP power negotiation at the firmware level, allowing our machines to request higher power from network switches before the OS loads.05-16-2025

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