EDK II white papers

EDK II White papers
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.PDF	A Tour Beyond BIOS Memory Map and Practices in UEFI BIOS- contributed by Vincent Zimmer and Jiewen Yao This paper introduces the memory map security practices in UEFI BIOS. Audience: This paper assumes that audience has basic EDKII/UEFI firmware development experience. The main job of BIOS is to initialize the platform hardware and report information to a generic operating system (OS). The memory map is one of the most important pieces of information. The operating system can only load a kernel, driver or application in the right place if it knows how memory is allocated. In UEFI Memory Map, we introduced the memory map design in UEFI BIOS, and saw how a typical platform reports the memory map to an OS. In this paper we will discuss how to enhance the memory map reporting and provide security practice for memory protection to harden platforms. March 2016
.PDF or .VSD	EDK II Topology SMM - White Paper contributed by Lee Hamel EDK II Topology – SMM: Topology of how SMM is set up and executed Jan 2016
.PDF or .VSD	EDK II Topology S3 - White Paper contributed by Lee Hamel EDK II Topology - S3: Topology of how S3 is set up and executed Jan 2016
.PDF or .VSD	EDK II Topology PCI Enumeration - White Paper contributed by Lee Hamel EDK II Topology - PCI Enumeration: Topology of how PCI Enumeration is set up and executed Jan 2016
PDF	UDK Build Integration of Reset Vector - White Paper contributed by Lee Hamel How the Reset Vector is integrated into a UDK build Jan 2016
.PDF	EDK II HTTP Boot Getting Started Guide This document is a getting started guide for using the HTTP boot capability introduced in the UEFI Specification, revision 2.5. Dec 2015 Rev 0.7
.PDF	A Tour Beyond BIOS Implementing UEFI Authenticated Variables in SMM with EDKII This paper presents the internal structure and boot flow of the SMM-based UEFI Authenticated Variable driver in the MDE Module Package and Security Package of the EDKII. Prerequisite This paper assumes that audience has EDKII/UEFI firmware development experience. He or she should also be familiar with UEFI/PI firmware infrastructure, such as SEC, PEI, DXE, runtime phase. Oct 2015
.PDF	A Tour Beyond BIOS Implementing S3 Resume with EDKII This paper presents the internal structure and boot flow of PI S3 resume design, as implemented in the EDKII. Prerequisite This paper assumes that audience has EDKII/UEFI firmware development experience. He or she should also be familiar with UEFI/PI/ACPI firmware infrastructure, such as SEC, PEI, DXE, runtime phase, and S-states. Oct 2015
PDF or Zip	A Tour Beyond BIOS into UEFI Secure Boot White Paper This document provides an overview of the implementation and intent behind the UEFI Secure Boot feature and capability of UEFI Specification, Version 2.3.1C, http://www.uefi.org The goal of the paper is to provide an understanding of the motivations behind this capability a walk-through of the implementation a future evolution. This paper targets firmware, software, and BIOS engineers. July 2012
.PDF	EDK II Build Decoded Discussion of the files that are used in a build and their purpose. April 2012
.PDF	How to create Visual Studio solution How to create a Visual Studio solution for an EDK II tree. April 2012
.PDF	EDK II Performance Optimization This paper focuses on techniques and methodologies which can be used to characterize and optimize the performance of EDK II based firmware. (PDF) April 2010