UDK2017 Key Features and Changes

• Industry Standards & Public Specifications
  • UEFI 2.6
  • UEFI PI 1.4a
  • UEFI Shell 2.2
  • SMBIOS 3.1.0 3.1.1
  • Intel® 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer Manuals for model specific register (MSR) definitions
• Storage Technologies
  • NVMe
• RAM Disk (UEFI 2.6, Section 12.17, RAM Disk Protocol)
• Compilers
  • GCC 5.x
  • CLANG/LLVM
  • NASM
• OpenSSL 1.1.0e
• UEFI HTTP/HTTPS Boot with TLS
• Adapter Information Protocol
• Regular Expression Protocol
• Signed Capsule Update
• Signed Recovery Images
• SMM Communication Buffer Protections
• SMI Handler Profile
• SMM Page Protection Feature
• STM Launch
• Memory Allocation/Free Profiler
• NX Page Protection in DXE
• LZMA Compression 16.04
• Brotli Compression
• MP Init Library & CPU Feature Initialization
• EFI Byte Code (EBC) Debugger
• Made HII configuration settings available to OS runtime in memory.
• Add RAM disk driver.
• New packages: IntelFsp2Pkg, IntelFsp2WrapperPkg, IntelSiliconPkg, SignedCapsulePkg

Note: This page describes the package notes and the differences based on previous UEFI Development Kit (UDK) UDK2015 Release.

• For a detailed list of Changes and updates, See wiki page UDK2017 Release

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