Intel® Whitley UEFI/EDK2: портирование firmware и board bring-up (практическое руководство, 2026)

Платформа Intel® Whitley – одна из последних серверных платформ Xeon, где ещё можно было осмысленно работать с firmware через EDK2. Здесь сформировалась зрелая архитектура UEFI (PEI/DXE, UBA), понятная и пригодная для реального портирования плат. Для многих инженеров Whitley стала точкой входа в серверный BIOS – балансом между доступностью кода и зависимостью от закрытых компонентов вроде FSP.

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#Tucana #EDK2 #UEFI #BIOS

It's Sunday, I'm again looking into an update to the #edk2 package and have to deal with its terrible "build system"... questioning life choices....

#ArchLinux #PackagerLife

The recording of the April 2nd, 2026 #bhyve Production User Call is up:

https://youtu.be/dRDCVRtA_SE

We discussed major #EDK2 updates, the long-awaited Sylve port, a #Sylve forum proposal, migrating from #TrueNAS to Sylve, a bhyve to the rescue story, Sylve Packet Filter integration and networking, Sylve use cases, and more!

"Don't forget to slam those Like and Subscribe buttons."

You can support all Call For Testing efforts via BSD Fund: https://bsdfund.org

So somewhat recently I acquired a #Dell #Optiplex 7010 SFF. This one has an #Intel Core i5-3470, 16 GB RAM, and a 480 GB HDD running #Windows 10.

This actually comes from my workplace, and I was lucky enough to keep this machine. My boss once used this as their main computer, but I guess something happened and they've been using a new one since. Thus, right now, I'm going to get data off it and get confirmation we got all the data my boss wants before I completely wipe the thing. Afterwards, I'm going to use it as a server or something and flash #Coreboot on it. (Maybe I'll figure out a way to build my own version of Coreboot with an #edk2 payload). Until then, I've setup a dual boot with Fedora 43 on it in case I need to get any more data off it. Then, I'll put #AlpineLinux on the thing and use it as a server for something.

I'm also taking suggestions on what to do with the thing if anyone has any! :D

Introducing the new PineTab :( Edition 🙁

#pine64 #pinetab2 #edk2

I've just installed "generic" Fedora 42 workstation on my OrangePi5+ thanks to EDK2 and it works very well out of the box (display, GPU, Ethernet, USB).

How come this thing is not more widely used? A generic distro running mainline Linux kernel : this is the user experience I would like to see on more ARM SBCs!

https://github.com/edk2-porting/edk2-rk3588

#RK3588 #OrangePi5Plus #EDK2 #UEFI

Installing UEFI Firmware on ARM SBCs

https://interfacinglinux.com/2025/08/25/edk2-uefi-for-the-rock-5-itx/

#HackerNews #UEFI #Firmware #ARM #SBCs #Edk2 #Rock5ITX #TechNews

Does anyone here know how to run #Amazon Linux 2 or 2023 #aarch64 #QEMU images? They seem to hang right after exiting boot services. Latest qemu and #EDK2 i could get on Fedora 42.

Perhaps @hrw knows, or knows someone who knows.