Revision 1.2.0
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This version includes the following new or updated modules:
#. Merged common.secureboot.keys module into common.secureboot.variables
module
#. Updated tools.secureboot.te module to be able to test PE/TE issue on
Linux or UEFI shell
#. Updated tools.smm.smm_ptr module
This version includes the following updates:
#. Added the *controls* abstraction. Modules are encouraged to use
``get_control`` and ``set_control`` when interacting with platform
registers. This permits greater flexibility in case the register that
controls a given feature or configuration changes between platform
generations. The controls are defined in the platform XML file. At this
time, only a small number of controls are defined. We plan to move
existing modules over to this new mechanism.
#. Added XML Schema for the XML configuration files
#. Support for reading, writing, and listing UEFI variables from the
UEFI Shell environment has been added.
#. Added support for decompression while SPI flash parsing via
``decode`` or ``uefi decode`` commands in Linux
#. Added basic ACPI table parsing to HAL (RSDP, RSDT/XSDT, APIC, DMAR)
#. Added UEFI tables searching and parsing to HAL (EFI system table,
runtime services table, boot services table, DXE services table, EFI
configuration table)
#. Added DIMM Serial Presence Detect (SPD) ROM dumping and parsing to
HAL
#. Added ``uefi s3bootscript`` command parsing the S3 boot script to
chipsec_util.py
#. Added virtual-to-physical address translation function to
Linux/EFI/Windows helpers
#. Added support of server platforms (Haswell server and Ivy Town) to
chipset.py
This version has the following known issues:
#. Decompression of images in SPI flash parsing is not available in UEFI
shell.
#. When calling alloc_phys_mem, the argument to set maximum physical
address (max_pa) for allocation is ignored on linux. A message will be
printed in dmesg if the allocation is above the max_pa that is passed
in, but the call will return anyway.
#. UEFI Shell environment does not support ``cpuid`` or
``get_thread_count``. There are functions that simply warn that they are
not supported.
#. Size of PCIEXBAR (MMCFG) is calculated incorrectly
UEFI shell.
2. Decompression of images in SPI flash parsing is only supported in
Windows.
3. UEFI - Support for IA32 and i586 (Quark)
4. Added capability to use modules from an arbitrary path with the -I
/ --import command line option
5. Module functionality encapsulated in class inheriting BaseModule
6. Fixed loading platform specific configuration
7. Fixed issue with modules which run on multiple logical CPUs
hanging on Bay Trail (Windows/Linux). The issue still exist when running
from UEFI shell
8. Added template for a module - module_template.py
9. Added options to flush log files
10. Added ability to define custom platforms
Driver changes:
1. Windows - Added IOCTL_ALLOC_PHYSMEM to allocate physical memory
buffer
2. Linux - Fix wrpci defect
Thiebaud Weksteen