Minor quibble ... "The UEFI Forum doesn't bother to update OVMF binaries to their download site, they're ancient." The UEFI Forum doesn't maintain OVMF or EDK Ii in general. EDK II is written to UEFI specs, and companies that are members of the UEFI Forum work on the project, but it's not an official thing. I do agree that you need to build your own, since the binaries are not as up-to-date as the main project.
Correction ... "Minnowboard is good, but AFAIK you can't update the firmware, you have to wait for Intel to produce the binaries, so it's not that useful." Not true. Build your own firmware using the development kit ... https://uefidk.com/content/minnowboard-uefi-firmware The original release was binary only, but now the kit is available. Thanks ... br --- Brian Richardson -- brian.richard...@intel.com -- Twitter: intel_brian -----Original Message----- From: Blibbet [mailto:blib...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2014 3:36 PM To: edk2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [edk2] minnowboard and duet Use QEMU/OVMF, it gets more attention from Intel than DUET, which was an older tech. I don't think anyone at ARM cares about DUET, but theydo care about helping QEMU/OVMF. The UEFI Forum doesn't bother to update OVMF binaries to their download site, they're ancient. They presume you'll use the UDK/EDK2 to build your own fresh ones. If you don't want to build your own and need some existing binaries, look to the Linux community, for their research in learning how to work around SecureBoot. There are multiple fresh OVMFs there. Focus on the few Linux companies that're members of the UEFI Forum (Canonical, RedHat, Ubuntu), and their free distros, Fedora, Ubuntu, OpenSUSE. http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/OVMF http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:UEFI_Secure_boot_using_qemu-kvm https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Testing_secureboot_with_KVM https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SecurityTeam/SecureBoot http://blog.hansenpartnership.com/uefi-secure-boot/ http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/ If you really want to try and use DUET, look to external DUET extensions that make the TianoCore DUET release usable. There's this one, and one other I can't find at the moment: https://gitorious.org/tianocore_uefi_duet_builds If you're on a budget and can't get a Tunnel Mountain, I'd suggest an ARM dev board, over the Minnow. Minnowboard is good, but AFAIK you can't update the firmware, you have to wait for Intel to produce the binaries, so it's not that useful. If/when you can update your own firmware, then it'll become a lot more useful for EFI dev. Take a look at Linaro.org's ARM dev boards, and their fork of EDK2 for ARM. You can use their Ubuntu or Android binaries, and use their UEFI, in QEMU, or with live hardware. http://releases.linaro.org/latest/components/kernel/uefi-linaro https://wiki.linaro.org/ARM/UEFI https://wiki.linaro.org/LEG/Engineering/Kernel/UEFI/ https://launchpad.net/linaro-uefi https://snapshots.linaro.org/components/kernel/uefi-next https://snapshots.linaro.org/components/kernel/uefi/ https://wiki.linaro.org/LEG/Enginering/Kernel/UEFI/UEFI_Network_Booting If you're on a budget, ignore hardware and just use QEMU/OVMF. My $.02 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Managing the Performance of Cloud-Based Applications Take advantage of what the Cloud has to offer - Avoid Common Pitfalls. Read the Whitepaper. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=121051231&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ edk2-devel mailing list edk2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/edk2-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Managing the Performance of Cloud-Based Applications Take advantage of what the Cloud has to offer - Avoid Common Pitfalls. Read the Whitepaper. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=121051231&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ edk2-devel mailing list edk2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/edk2-devel
