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…deliver a unicast ICMP error message addressed to the client's IP, from any network distance. [1] https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/security/advisories/GHSA-9...

comment by kikdij · 2026-10-28 · in Code-execution flaw in UEFI firmware threatens most servers on planet Earth

Thank you for sharing this tidbit. It looks like this may have been fixed? https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/blob/master/NetworkPkg/Htt... I have an HTTP netboot flow that worked on older AMI Aptio firmwares, but fails on anything newer to…

comment by pdmccormick · 2026-06-12 · in Introduction to UEFI HTTP(s) Boot with QEMU/OVMF

…firmware development environment for the UEFI and PI specifications from www.uefi.org: https://github.com/tianocore/edk2 ) to not be used as the basis for a secure boot load plus runtime firmware services stack). Vendor veerage from…

comment by fork-bomber · 2026-05-09 · in RISC-V Server Platform Spec Ratified

…ever so slightly jarring. * https://github.com/NumberOneGit/edk2/blob/master/MdeModulePk... * https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/blob/master/MdeModulePkg/U... * https://tty0.social/@JdeBP/114658278210981731 *…

comment by JdeBP · 2025-08-28 · in How to install TrueNAS on a Raspberry Pi

…a few instructions of the initial near jump. * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18166292 * https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/blob/master/UefiCpuPkg/Sec... * https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/blob/master/UefiCpuPkg/Res... *…

comment by JdeBP · 2025-06-15 · in What MS-DOS Can Do That Linux Can't

…should be what you are looking for. [1] https://doc.coreboot.org/security/vboot/index.html [2] https://github.com/tianocore/edk2

comment by JCattheATM · 2025-06-12 · in Another Crack in the Chain of Trust: Uncovering (Yet Another) Secure Boot Bypass

…entry (which can be rather large - based on the EFI specification and the code used for edk2, e.g. https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/blob/83a86f465ccb1a792f5c5... ). Deleting these entries might become a problem when you start running…

comment by pbrowne011 · 2025-02-24 · in Defragging my old Dell's UEFI NVRAM

…code, in which case you can take a look here for the implementation of the trace printing logic: https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/blob/9e6537469d4700d9d793e...

comment by pzmarzly · 2024-12-25 · in When power cycling your (x86) server isn't enough to recover it

…to do all the steps your bios bootloader used to do to set up a 64-bit environment ready to go: https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/blob/edc6681206c1a8791981a... , https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/blob/edc6681206c1a8791981a... ,…

comment by zahllos · 2024-02-20 · in Future of 32-bit platform support in FreeBSD

…[1] - https://uefi.org/specs/UEFI/2.10/09_Protocols_EFI_Loaded_Ima... [2] - https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/blob/991515a0583f65a64b3a6...

comment by bpye · 2023-08-14 · in ZFSBootMenu

What is the difference between this and https://github.com/tianocore/edk2

comment by tester756 · 2023-06-14 · in AMD openSIL open source firmware proof of concept

https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/blob/9ce09870e721efacc41fa...

comment by dawidpotocki · 2023-01-17 · in MSI's (in)Secure Boot

…but the input won’t work. MSI did not add any of these features, they are available in EDK II. https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/blob/9ce09870e721efacc41fa...

comment by dawidpotocki · 2023-01-17 · in MSI's (in)Secure Boot

…about every single UEFI-based firmware out there, that is completely open source available here https://github.com/tianocore/edk2 and it's completely possible to ship a fully open UEFI system. It happens to be the case that most…

comment by kr99x · 2022-10-06 · in Open Source Firmware Conference 2022 [videos]

…this file contains a canonical instruction sequence for entering and returning from big real mode: https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/blob/master/MdePkg/Library... (x86_64 version: https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/blob/master/MdePkg/Library…

comment by winocm · 2022-08-13 · in Intel 286 secrets: ICE mode and F1 0F 04

…feature-rich, cross-platform firmware development environment for the UEFI and PI specifications". https://github.com/tianocore/edk2

comment by wmf · 2021-08-27 · in Honeycomb LX2 ARM Workstation: An Alternative to x86

…It turns out someone did. In this case, TianoCore/EDK2's shell (but I'm sure there are others): https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/blob/UDK2018/ShellBinPkg/U... Related: CHIPSEC: Platform Security Assessment Framework:…

comment by peter_d_sherman · 2020-03-25 · in Creating a Bootable USB Drive with UEFI Shell

> Please can you post the link to the github repo? I'm can't seem to find it. https://github.com/tianocore/edk2 Although https://www.tianocore.org/ is probably a better link to get started. > Also, which license is it published under? BSD…

comment by jabl · 2019-05-10 · in Open source firmware is important for security

…blob running on the ASRock motherboard doesn't come with compilable source so it's not much help. https://github.com/tianocore/edk2

comment by rwmj · 2018-11-27 · in ASRock motherboard destroys Linux software RAID

…the hardware can still lie to you. What I also have in mind is the trusting trust issues [2]. [1] https://github.com/tianocore/edk2 [2] http://wiki.c2.com/?TheKenThompsonHack

comment by hawski · 2017-10-30 · in Replacing exploit-ridden firmware with a Linux kernel [pdf]

…://github.com/tianocore/tianocore.github.io/wiki/Gettin... Also, see the "Resources" section of this: https://github.com/tianocore/edk2 Every computer coming out these days should be on EDKII based UEFI Firmware

comment by cognitivedev · 2017-10-21 · in UEFI Programming – First Steps (2009)

…features are, to my knowledge, proprietary - IBV products (AMI, Phoenix) are proprietary [0] https://github.com/tianocore/edk2 [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_Platform_Module

comment by kogepathic · 2017-10-07 · in Bypassing Intel Boot Guard

…the real mode code to be able to enter 16- or 32-bit protected mode. This[1] is an example. [1] https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/blob/master/MdePkg/Library...

comment by bonzini · 2016-09-01 · in What’s up with the Beep driver in Windows 7? (2010)

…. If anything, it allows quite a bit more introspection and extensibility. And its core is FOSS ( https://github.com/tianocore/edk2 ), just not the versions shipped by board/system vendors.

comment by JoshTriplett · 2015-09-23 · in Yet another pre-installed spyware app discovered on Lenovo computers

…OS that runs the software you care about. Intel sponsors most of the core OS code (mirrored) at: https://github.com/tianocore/edk2 A Bios vendor takes that code, drops in a bunch of hardware init code from Intel (or AMD), adds thier own…

comment by tryp · 2014-12-21 · in Apple EFI Firmware Security Vulnerabilities