Head here to get the latest UEFI plugfest presentations on a variety of topics, although security dominates the topic list, with top notch presentations by Insyde, Intel (and here), ARM, Phoenix and Microsoft. The presentation by Microsoft is a redacted version of what was presented live because it contained details about unreleased versions of the Windows operating systems.
After security, it was programming languages, with presentations by Intel for ACPI Source Language (ASL) and MicroPython.
My presentation focused on adapting Microsoft's Security Development Lifecycle to UEFI and firmware, based on our ongoing experience at Insyde. Conversations afterward showed a great level of interest in introducing these processes into an industry that has traditionally not worried about this level of discipline in security.
Rounding out the topic list was the state of UEFI (the illustrious Mark Doran, Intel), SMBIOS and ACPI table construction (ARM), EDK2 platforms (Linaro), UEFI capsule update (Microsoft), and NVMe (AMI).
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Thursday, October 31, 2013
Linux and UEFI: Linaro and LinuxCon
This week I've spent hanging around Linaro Connect 2013 USA, which is dedicated to bringing all of the open-source (and Linux) goodness to the ARM platform. For the 64-bit ARM architecture (AArch64), they have been promoting UEFI for quite a while but Linaro and its members are doing a lot of the really hard work of making sure that is a reality, with engineers dedicated to working from the reset vector up through the Linux kernel and into some server applications, making sure that all the necessary bits are there in open source. There were a lot of sessions this week that deal with the thorny issues of UEFI (secure boot), power management (PSCI) and ACPI (interaction with existing drivers and FDT). To top it off, this event was co-located with ARM TechCon which doubled the fun, including an interesting keynote by Simon Segars, CEO or ARM.
This follows on the heels of the UEFI Plugfest, which was co-located also, but with LinuxCon in New Orleans. My colleague, Jeff Wheeler from Insyde got to attend, and he found folks interested in the question, "Does it really work?" And the answer was, "Yes, it does" This is the impression I recently found from Bruno Cornec's blog article "First UEFI PlugFest for Linuxers". Good communication, good testing and, more importantly, UEFI and Linux work together.
The relationship between Linux and UEFI has not always been easy, with conspiracy theories and suspicious kicking of tires. But these two events have shown that they can and do work together, on x86 and ARM.
This follows on the heels of the UEFI Plugfest, which was co-located also, but with LinuxCon in New Orleans. My colleague, Jeff Wheeler from Insyde got to attend, and he found folks interested in the question, "Does it really work?" And the answer was, "Yes, it does" This is the impression I recently found from Bruno Cornec's blog article "First UEFI PlugFest for Linuxers". Good communication, good testing and, more importantly, UEFI and Linux work together.
The relationship between Linux and UEFI has not always been easy, with conspiracy theories and suspicious kicking of tires. But these two events have shown that they can and do work together, on x86 and ARM.
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