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 16580, git commit e60fbd59cabe28d2205cbdb335e5be29d8b978e8

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-misc
• linaro-platform-leg-mustang
• linaro-platform-panda
• linaro-platform-rtsm
• linaro-platform-tc2
• linaro-platform-ti-bbb
• linaro-topic-lan91x
• linaro-topic-leg

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

New in this release

• Alternative images without ArmBds and the non-standard built-in Linux Loader, with the IntelBds instead, provided for qemu, qemu64 and Juno.
• linaro-topic-leg-acpi branch merged into linaro-topic-leg

Fixed in this release

The following issues were fixed in this release:

• BZ: #257 Fails to enumerate USB devices when starting shell ???
• BZ: #1011 UEFI ignores DHCP responses without PXE information

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: #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.