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UEFI Forum recommends FWTS for it’s ACPI tests

FWTS has had ACPI tests for a while, and it’s basically the best public set of ACPI tests available. Better than anything the UEFI Forum has, like the SCTs. They’ve been using FWTS in the UEFI plugfests for a while, for ACPI purposes. Now the UEFI Forum is more formally recommending FWTS. Alex Hung of Canonical announces a new milestone for FWTS, the FirmWare Test Suite:

FWTS 17.03.00 is recommended as the ACPI 6.1 SCT

We have achieved another important milestone! The UEFI Board of Directors recommends Firmware Test Suite (FWTS) release 17.03.00 as the ACPI v6.1 Self-Certification Test (SCT), More information is available at:
http://www.uefi.org/testtools
Thank you all for who contributed patches, reported bugs, provided feedbacks and used FWTS in your work.

Thanks, FWTS, for having the best ACPI tests available!

 

Full announcement:
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/fwts-announce

 

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ARM joins UEFI Forum Board

The UEFI Forum issued a press release today, about ARM joining the board.

UEFI Forum Appoints ARM to Board of Directors Fortifying Its Commitment to Firmware Innovation

ARM Strengthens Its Long-Standing Presence and Contributions to the UEFI Ecosystem
June 06, 2017 11:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time

BEAVERTON, Ore.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The UEFI Forum, a non-profit industry standards body that champions firmware advancement through industry collaboration and advocacy of firmware technology standards, announced today that ARM has been appointed to the UEFI Forum Board of Directors.[…]

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20170606005502/en/UEFI-Forum-Appoints-ARM-Board-Directors-Fortifying

http://www.uefi.org/node/3715

 

 

 

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UEFI updates specs

The UEFI Forum has updated their specs.

UEFI Spec v2.7
http://www.uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/UEFI_Spec_2_7.pdf

PI v1.6
http://www.uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/PI_Spec_1_6.pdf

ACPI v6.2
http://www.uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI_6_2.pdf

SCT v2.5A
http://www.uefi.org/testtools

http://uefi.org/specsandtesttools
http://uefi.org/specifications

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UEFI UDK2017 pre-release available

Brian Richardson of Intel announced a pre-release of UDK2017, a snapshot of the Tianocore.org EDK2 trunk code matching a set of UEFI.org specs.

Information on UDK2017, the next stable snapshot release of EDK II, is available on the TianoCore wiki.

From the release page on the wiki, here’s the list of

UDK2017 Key Features
    Industry Standards & Public Specifications
        UEFI 2.6
        UEFI PI 1.4a
        UEFI Shell 2.2
        SMBIOS 3.1.1
        Intel® 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer Manuals
    Storage Technologies
        NVMe
        RAM Disk (UEFI 2.6, Section 12.17, RAM Disk Protocol)
    Compilers
        GCC 5.x
        CLANG/LLVM
        NASM
    OpenSSL 1.1.0
    UEFI HTTP/HTTPS Boot
    Adapter Information Protocol
    Regular Expression Protocol
    Signed Capsule Update
    Signed Recovery Images
    SMM Communication Buffer Protections
    STM Launch
    Memory Allocation/Free Profiler
    NX Page Protection in DXE
    LZMA Compression 16.04
    Brotli Compression
    MP Init Library

https://github.com/tianocore/tianocore.github.io/wiki/UDK2017

More info:
https://lists.01.org/mailman/listinfo/edk2-devel

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20+ China-based companies join UEFI Forum

They could have at least included the list of the 20+ companies in the press release. ;-(

In anticipation of the first China-based UEFI event in ten years, over 20 new members in China joined the UEFI Forum—indicating significant interest in UEFI technology in the greater China region. Additionally, in attendance from the region were prominent member companies including H3C and Inspur, Lenovo, Loongson Technology Corporation Limited, and Sugon.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/20-china-based-companies-join-020000847.html

http://uefi.org/members

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UEFI Plugfest slides uploaded

https://uefi.blogspot.com/2017/03/uefi-plugfest-2017-in-nanjing.html

Tim Lewis of Insyde has a blog post with an update for the UEFI plugfest. *Multiple* presentations on security!!

 State of UEFI – Mark Doran (Intel)
 Keynote: China Information Technology Ecosystem – Guangnan Ni (Chinese Academy of Engineering).
 The Role of UEFI Technologies Play in ARM Platform Architecture – Dong Wei (ARM)
 ARM Server’s Firmware Security – Zhixiong (Jonathan) Zhang, Cavium
 SMM Protection in EDK II – Jiewen Yao (Intel)
 Server RAS and UEFI CPER – Mao Lucia and Spike Yuan (Intel)
 A More Secure and Better User Experience for OS-based Firmware Update – David Liu (Phoenix)
 UEFI and IoT: Best Practices in Developing IoT Firmware Solutions – Hawk Chen (Byosoft)
 Establishing and Protecting a Chain of Trust with UEFI – David Chen (Insyde)
 Implementation of Hypervisor in UEFI Firmware – Kangkang Shen (Huawei)
 Lessons Learned from Implementing a Wi-Fi and BT Stack – Tony Lo (AMI)
  UEFI Development Anti-Patterns – Chris Stewart (HP)

http://www.uefi.org/learning_center/presentationsandvideos

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ACPI registry updates

It looks like there have been 3 new ACPI regisrations so far this year:

Coreboot Project     BOOT     02/28/2017
https://www.coreboot.org/

Exar Corporation     EXAR     02/28/2017
https://www.exar.com/

VR Technology Holdings Limited     3GVR     01/19/2017
http://www.3glasses.com/en/

http://www.uefi.org/acpi_id_list

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