Linaro Releases

Linaro releases monthly binary images of UEFI, based on the Tianocore project.

Tianocore baselines

The Linaro UEFI tree is based on the following upstream versions of code from Tianocore:

• edk2 at subversion revision 16456, git commit 71f02911b176657c1c8dc952f93a022719ea878a

The latest version of the EDK2 code contains the upstream code augmented with the following topic branches:

• linaro-platform-a9
• linaro-platform-hisilicon-d01
• linaro-platform-leg-fvp
• linaro-platform-leg-mustang
• linaro-platform-panda
• linaro-platform-rtsm
• linaro-platform-tc2
• linaro-platform-ti-bbb
• linaro-topic-lan91x
• linaro-topic-leg
• linaro-topic-leg-acpi

Platform Support

Platforms supported by this release include:

• Versatile Express TC2, RTSM A9×4 and A15×1, A15 MPCore, Foundation (legacy) and FVP Base models.
• qemu-system-arm, qemu-system-aarch64.
• TI BeagleBone Black and Pandaboard
• Applied Micro Mustang

Hisilicon D01 is again included in this month’s release.

New in this release

• stdout-path added to embedded dtbs for FVP/Foundation targets.
• Dummy SMBIOS table added to FVP target.
• Versatile Express A5 and TC1 ports have now been dropped from monthly builds.

Fixed in this release

The following issues were fixed in this release:

• BZ: #990 ACPI Tables Missing for Juno

Known Issues

The following open issues were unresolved in this release:

• BZ: #255 Delete key does not work in UEFI shell
• BZ: #256 Characters routinely dropped in UEFI shell
• BZ: #257 Fails to enumerate USB devices when starting shell ???
• BZ: #292 Boot logs are hard to read on Juno
• BZ: #826 SBBR compliance of our EDK2 releases
• BZ: #858 “PXE-E18: Server response timeout.” when PXE booting
• BZ: #951 Fails to enumerate MMIO addresses in UEFI that are described in ACPI DSDT table supplied by firmware

Building UEFI

For more instructions on how to build UEFI from source, please see the LEG wiki build page

More information

The LEG UEFI wiki is a great place to start developing with Linaro’s UEFI tree.