v1.16 release for Pi 4

July 11, 2020 by Andrei Warkentin

A bit of polish and correctness, making for a less frustrating experience overall and keeping up with TianoCore development.

https://github.com/pftf/RPi4/releases/tag/v1.16

What’s inside this release?

Enable network boot by default on first boot, when all other
boot options fail [tianocore/edk2-platforms@8dd78ea]
Regenerate boot options on boot failure [tianocore/edk2@2d233af]
Update SMBIOS data [tianocore/edk2-platforms/@d2c797e22, tianocore/edk2-platforms@b2bc859]
Improve GENET driver [tianocore/edk2-platforms@743f501]
Fix NonCoherentDmaLib bounce buffering code [tianocore/edk2@8f22a33]

As always, read the release notes and usual caveats.

v1.15 release for Pi 4

July 11, 2020 by Andrei Warkentin

https://github.com/pftf/RPi4/releases/tag/v1.15

What’s inside this release?

Remove obsolete Verbose ExitBootServices option [tianocore/edk2-platforms@4c8c886]
Add asset tag support [tianocore/edk2-platforms@6d4fed6]

This is a minor release, but the asset tag functionality is pretty cool. This let’s you set a custom string to be reported via SMBIOS to the booted OS, which you could use for inventory or provisioning requirements.

The tag can also be set programmatically or via the UEFI Shell command line.

Shell> setvar AssetTag -guid CD7CC258-31DB-22E6-9F22-63B0B8EED6B5 -bs
-rt -nv =L"ABC123" =0x0000

The matching Pi 3 release is v1.27.

As always, read the release notes and usual caveats.