Good news—the UEFI Fall 2016 Plugfest has ended and the materials are now available on-line for anyone not able to attend in person. This e...
UEFI Fall 2016 Plugfest Materials Now Available
DMTF Launches YouTube Channel with Redfish School Series
It what is sure to be a contender for the world’s nerdiest YouTube channel, the DMTF has launched a channel to provide webinars on DMTF s...
PI 1.5 Has Been Released
Just a quick note— UEFI.org has officially published the Platform Initialization Specification v1.5: Dear UEFI Forum Members, The followi...
This Just In: The Pentium Chip is the End of the Line for Intel
I’m now journeying through 1994 in my exploration of The Computer Chronicles . The following gem I discovered was too precious not to pass ...
The Joy of CrScreenshotDxe
I’ve been playing with an open-source (Github-hosted) utility written by Mr. Nikolaj Schlej called CrScreenshotDxe . This utility is imple...
The Binwalk Firmware Analysis Tool
I’ve recently been experimenting with a wicked-fun tool you may find useful called Binwalk : a “fast, easy to use tool for analyzing and ex...
Talking edk2 on IRC
Introduction The fine folks behind Tianocore/EDKII work hard to create a community in which BIOS developers can thrive; some of their effor...
I’m Sick of Hearing About “Full Stack Developers”
If you follow the software engineering industry, in even the most shallow way, you’ve probably heard the term “full stack developer”. All t...
Syntax Highlighting for ASL (ACPI)
I’ve been writing some ACPI Source Language (ASL) code for a project recently, and so I went through the exercise of configuring syntax high...
Gource on EDKII Source
I’ve been experimenting with a super-neat source code management (SCM) visualization tool called Gource . In Gource, software projects are ...
New Technical Forum for PCI-SIG Members
It’s not unusual for BIOS developers to work deep in the bowels of PCI subsystems, utilizing bus analyzers and Mindshare books to debug di...
My Blogroll
Like most of you, I read a lot to keep up with our industry. I’m a big fan of RSSOwl . RSSOwl is an open-source newsreader/aggregator that...
A Tour of Intel CHIPSEC
CHIPSEC is a framework for analyzing the security of PC platforms, including their hardware, BIOS, and platform configuration. It includes...
UEFI and Windows
It’s a bit old (2009) but this UEFI and Windows white paper is a good read: https://github.com/WilliamLeara/BasicInputOutput/raw/master/UE...
UEFI Spring 2016 Plugfest Materials Now Available
Good news—the UEFI Spring 2016 Plugfest ended on April 1, (no fooling!) and the materials are now available on-line for anyone not able to ...
Intel’s EDKII & UEFI Developer Survey Now Open
This is your big chance to make Brian Richardson happy. Intel Software is conducting a survey with the goal of improving EDKII and UEFI de...
Introduction to the UEFI Self-Certification Test (SCT)
There is a wealth of validation utilities and frameworks available to UEFI developers—some might say too many. Here’s a summary of those I ...
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