Tim Lewis of Insyde resumes blogging on firmware

April 2, 2018 ~ hucktech ~ Leave a comment

Tim Lewis has been blogging on UEFI for a long time. But took a break, now is resuming:

[…]After some gentle ribbing from colleagues at the UEFI plug-fest in Bellevue, WA, I’ve decided to try to keep track of recent trends in UEFI here again.

His current blog post covers a few topics, including replying to Vincent Zimmer’s recent claims of definitive ways to pronounce UEFI and ACPI:

[…]And for the record, it is U-E-F-I (not YOO-FI or micro-EFI) and A-C-P-I (not AK-PIE). On a side note about competing acronym pronunciations, in the early days of the EISA (Extended ISA) bus architecture, it was pointed out that while English speakers naturally pronounced EISA as EEE-SA and ISA as AY-SA, other European languages had would naturally pronounce it exactly opposite (EISA as AY-SA and ISA as EE-SA).[…]

https://uefi.blogspot.com/2018/04/uefi-notes-cs2ai-uefi-plugfest-and.html

Writing UEFI code in C++

May 22, 2017 ~ hucktech ~ Leave a comment

Tim has a new blog post — first of a series — on writing UEFI code in C++.

https://uefi.blogspot.com/2017/05/using-c-with-edk2-part-1-new-and-delete.html

https://sourceforge.net/projects/syslibforuefi/

Maze game for UEFI

April 27, 2017 ~ hucktech ~ Leave a comment

There’s one UEFI-based game I have not mentioned: Maze, by Tim Lewis. He’s got multiple blog posts on how the code works. He just relicensed it to BSD:

https://uefi.blogspot.com/2017/04/maze-game-source-code.html

https://uefi.blogspot.com/search/label/Maze

https://svn.code.sf.net/p/syslibforuefi/code/trunk/

Look at the game/games tags for other UEFI-based games.

Tim and Vincent on firmware bugs

January 12, 2017 ~ hucktech ~ Leave a comment

“‘If you can fix a hardware bug in firmware, it’s not a bug but a documentation issue.’ —An anonymous hardware manager.”

Two related blog posts on firmware defects:

http://uefi.blogspot.com/2017/01/firmware-bugs-and-firmware-updates.html

http://vzimmer.blogspot.com/2017/01/whose-bug-is-it.html

Tim Lewis resumes uefi.blogspot blog!

October 28, 2016 ~ hucktech ~ Leave a comment

For a long time the uefi.blogspot.com was one of the only sources of UEFI blogging. It appears to have been inactive for about 2 years, but has 2 new posts from this month! Make sure this blog is still on your RSS feed list.

http://uefi.blogspot.com/2016/10/intel-and-insyde-embedded-white-paper.html

http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/embedded/software/fsp/fast-secure-iot-solutions-insyde-software-blink-boot-fsp-white-paper.html

http://uefi.blogspot.com/2016/10/pi-15-released.html