Embedded Firmware Solutions: Development Best Practices for the Internet of Things
APress Media
ISBN 978-4842-0071-1
February 2015
Jiming Sun, Marc Jones, Stefan Reinauer, Vincent Zimmer
http://www.apress.com/9781484200711
[I recently finished reading this book. Sadly, I didn’t know about it until the other day, after my LinuxFestNorthWest talk on firmware security tools, someone from Sage pointed out that I omitted this from my More Information slides.]
If you care about firmware development — or just understanding current firmware architecture — you should have this book. It is the only current book with information about modern firmware in use today. The authors are all experienced and well-known firmware developers, including members of the Coreboot and UEFI teams, and there is also an impressive list of tech reviewers. There are 4 areas that this book focuses on:
* Intel Firmware Support Package (FSP), and it’s use in Coreboot and UEFI.
* UEFI and it’s dev platform.
* Coreboot and Chrome use of it.
* Intel Quark and UEFI firmware.
Intel Press has a handful of other UEFI books, but they are years old, this book is only a few months old, and has fresher details on UEFI. I don’t know of any other book with this kind of information on Coreboot, or on Intel FSP. There are a variety of books on Intel’s Minnowboard and Quark/Galileo IoT hardware: most of those books talk about how to write user-level apps, this is the only book that talks about updating the firmware of Intel IoT devices.
I’m looking forward to a second edition in a year or so, once tech changes enough.
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