Future work

As discussed in the white paper, A Tour Beyond BIOS Memory Map And Practices in UEFI BIOS, there are some limitations if one wants to enable an entire DEP environment in UEFI pre-boot environment. If the limitation is eliminated in the future, we may configure a DEP environment in the pre-boot environment.

Summary

This section introduces the data execution protection and how to enable it in EDK II. For more details, please refer to the white paper A Tour Beyond BIOS Memory Map And Practices in UEFI BIOS, where we have provided a detailed discussion before.