EDK II Information

EDK II

A modern, feature-rich, cross-platform firmware development environment for the UEFI and PI specifications. Click for a list of EDK II Documents and Specifications

• UDK2010 is a stable release of portions of our EDK II project.
• edk2-buildtools is the primary set of tools for processing EDK II content.
• OVMF is a project to enable UEFI support for Virtual Machines.
• Shellpkg UEFI Shell is a project to create a UEFI 2.0 Shell implementation.
• EDK II Application Development Kit (EADK) includes Standard C Libraries in UEFI Shell Applications (EFI_Toolkit replacement)
• UEFI Driver Developer Resources with EDK II Support UEFI driver development by independent hardware vendors (IHV), including the UEFI Driver Wizard and UEFI Driver Writers Guide (DWG).
• Beagle Board is a low cost highly capable single board computer.
• edk2-fat-driver is a driver for the FAT12/16/32 filesystems.
• gcc-shell is a port of the older EFI shell to add GCC build support and ARM processor support.
• EDKII Packages - List of EDK II based packages
• GSOC2011 is our Google Summer of Code 2011 project
• EDK2Share A sharing location
• Some open Tasks suggested by our EDK II community
• EDK II Security Package and other news on Security SecurityPkg
• MinnowBoard open community project with UEFI Developed firmware.
• MinnowBoardMax open community project with UEFI Developed firmware.
• Coreboot_UEFI_payload open community project for Coreboot Payload Package.

License information: BSD

Source repositories: git {github, bitbucket, sourceforge, more info}, svn {sourceforge}

Community: email {edk2-devel}, irc {#edk2 on www.oftc.net, setup, web client}

EDK II Summary page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/edk2

Stable releases: UDK2010, UDK2014

Important Information

• Getting Started for Developers
• Packages
• Open Tasks
• Code Style
• EDK II Documents

Related Information

• Start using UEFI
• Overview