Minimum Platform Architecture MinPlatform

The Minimum Platform Architecture (MPA) creates guidelines for how to design, enable improvements in quality and security on open source platform initialization development on firmware for Intel products.

MinPlatformPkg

The main MinPlatform Package (MinPlatformPkg) provides a consistent boot flow and well-defined interfaces to support board functions.

• How to download and build https://github.com/tianocore/edk2-platforms/blob/master/Platform/Intel/Readme.md

EDK II Minimum Platforms

• Kaby Lake MinPlatform - EDK II platform firmware on 7th Generation Intel® Core™ Processors and chipsets (formerly Kaby Lake platforms).

• Project Olympus (Purley MinPlatform) - EDK II platform firmware for the Open Compute Project (OCP) Intel XSP Motherboard.

  Note: Purley board support is no longer available in the codebase.

• Whiskey Lake MinPlatform - EDK II platform firmware on 8th Generation Intel® Core™ Processors and chipsets (formerly Whiskey Lake platforms).

Resources

• Open Source Firmware Conference (OSFC) Presentation on Minimum Platform Architecture (Sept 2019)
• EDK II Minimum Platform Architecture Specification
• A Tour Beyond BIOS Open Source IA Firmware Platform Design Guide in EDK II (v 2)