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Uefi.org Drops Mother-of-all-Spec-Updates

Uefi.org Drops Mother-of-all-Spec-Updates
Uefi.org Drops Mother-of-all-Spec-Updates

Press release from 5 June 2017: Dear UEFI Forum Members, The following specification updates have completed all reviews and are officially ...

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“Hello World” Quick-Start with UDK2015

“Hello World” Quick-Start with UDK2015
“Hello World” Quick-Start with UDK2015

The objective of this post is to explain how to get started with UEFI development by getting the UDK2015 development environment up and runn...

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EDK
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Spring 2017 UEFI Plugfest and Seminar Materials Now Available

Spring 2017 UEFI Plugfest and Seminar Materials Now Available
Spring 2017 UEFI Plugfest and Seminar Materials Now Available

The Spring 2017 UEFI Plugfest was held March 28-30 in Nanjing, China this year.  The presentations are now available for download !  (below)...

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Small Updates to SMBIOS

Small Updates to SMBIOS
Small Updates to SMBIOS

The DMTF made a small update to the SMBIOS Spec recently (January 2017), and in the process bumped the version number from 3.1.0 to 3.1.1....

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AMD, smbios, specifications
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