sentence: uefi firmware provides several technical advantages over a traditional bios system : ability to boot from large disks ( over 2 tb ) with a guid partition table ( gpt ) cpu-independent architecture cpu-independent drivers flexible pre-os environment , including network capability modular design compatibility processor compatibility as of version 2.4 , processor bindings exist for itanium , x86 , x86-64 , arm ( aarch32 ) and arm64 ( aarch64 ) .