Additional Projects

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

EDK II Projects

• UEFI Development Kit 2017 (UDK2017) is a stable release of portions of EDK II.
• edk2-buildtools are the primary set of tools for processing EDK II content.
• ShellPkg is a UEFI 2.0 Shell implementation.
• The EDK II Application Development Kit (EADK) includes Standard C Libraries in UEFI Shell Applications (replacement for the EFI Toolkit).
• UEFI Driver Developer Resources for EDK II support UEFI driver development by independent hardware vendors (IHV), including the UEFI Driver Wizard and UEFI Driver Writers Guide (DWG).
• 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.
• EDK II Security Package and other security information.
• Open Tasks suggested by the EDK II community.
• Coreboot UEFI Payload open community project.
• EDK II Build Data Viewer project at 01.org
• MicroPython Test Framework for UEFI - framework for unit testing and test automation, based on a port of MicroPython to UEFI for a lightweight and minimalist implementation.

EDK II Platforms

Events and Hack-a-thons

TianoCore technical sessions and workshops are featured at a variety of conferences. Hack-a-thons are in-person events designed to encourage developer feedback on TianoCore projects and features. These are typically associated with, or adjacent to, other firmware-related conferences.

• OSFC 2018 - Open Source Firmware Conference. Sept 12-15, 2018. Erlangen, Germany.
• YVR 2018 - Linaro Connect. Sept 17-21, 2018. Vancouver, BC.

Other Projects (Non EDK II Projects)

Important Information

• Getting Started for Developers
• EDKII Packages
• Code Style
• EDK II Documents
• Start using UEFI
• EDK II Overview