This is the third and final installment in the “Courtesy of Nikolaj” series of posts. Nikolaj Schlej recently took to Twitter to summarize the recent updates to UEFI, PI, and ACPI. Here are my previous posts on these topics:
UEFI 2.7: http://www.basicinputoutput.com/2017/07/uefi-27-courtesy-of-nikolaj.html
PI 1.6: http://www.basicinputoutput.com/2017/07/pi-16-courtesy-of-nikolay.html
And here is Nikolaj’s summary of new features in ACPI 6.2:
ACPI 6.2: new SDEV ACPI table, a list of devices that are allowed/denied to be hand-off by secure OS to a normal one. pic.twitter.com/sbmAg7UASl
— Nikolaj Schlej (@NikolajSchlej) July 1, 2017
ACPI 6.2: new HMAT ACPI table, memory attributes for systems with heterogeneous memory architecture. pic.twitter.com/IrUk1g2BSi
— Nikolaj Schlej (@NikolajSchlej) July 1, 2017
ACPI 6.2: new PDTT ACPI table, a standard way to notify all debuggers connected to the system of a fatal crash. Debug engineers, rejoice! pic.twitter.com/jsdzDzT0AP
— Nikolaj Schlej (@NikolajSchlej) July 1, 2017
ACPI 6.2: new PPTT ACPI table, a description of CPU topology, available cache types and sizes. pic.twitter.com/hkQ7MRATDD
— Nikolaj Schlej (@NikolajSchlej) July 1, 2017
ACPI 6.2: unreleased reserved DPPT ACPI table, https://t.co/If7EzuW4ZQ doesn't have link to it's description. @vincentzimmer, is this OK? pic.twitter.com/7pkgxwitxr
— Nikolaj Schlej (@NikolajSchlej) July 1, 2017
ACPI 6.2: unreleased reserved SDEI ACPI table, https://t.co/If7EzuW4ZQ doesn't have link to it's description yet. pic.twitter.com/cdpU4RcCuv
— Nikolaj Schlej (@NikolajSchlej) July 1, 2017
ACPI 6.2: reserved WSMT ACPI table, Microsoft's invention for system firmware to report it's SMM security measures: https://t.co/mxUfBUgVsb pic.twitter.com/p5ApkAhLiC
— Nikolaj Schlej (@NikolajSchlej) July 1, 2017
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