EDK II Driver Writer's Guide for UEFI 2.3.1
DRAFT FOR REVIEW
12/01/2020 06:15:53
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Revision History
Revision |
Decscription |
Date |
|---|---|---|
| 0.31 | Initial draft. | 4/3/03 |
| 0.70 | Initial draft. Edited for formatting and grammar. | 6/3/03 |
| 0.90 | Incorporated industry review comments. | 7/20/04 |
| Updated the coding conventions. | ||
| Updated for the 1.10.14.62 release of the EFI Sample Implementation. | ||
| Updated the supported versions of Microsoft Visual Studio and Windows. | ||
| Removed TBD sections that appeared in the 0.7 version. Edited for grammar and formatting. | ||
| 0.91 | Updated for UEFI 2.0 | 10/31/06 |
| 0.92 | New formatting | 11/27/06 |
| 0.93 | Review feedback incorporated | 1/14/2007 |
| 0.94 | Additional formatting | 2/27/2007 |
| 0.95 | Additional formatting | 3/23/2007 |
| 0.96 | Additional formatting | 4/25/2008 |
| 0.97 | Clarify role of EDK as being implementation-specific and added definitions myriad of library references so the meaning of the implementation specific code examples could be clarified without having to reference documents aside from the UEFI Specification. | 6/25/2008 |
| 0.98 | Updated for UEFI 2.3.1 and EDK II | 2/12/12 |
| 1.00 | Review feedback incorporated, additional formatting | 2/27/12 |
| 1.01 | Review feedback incorporated | 3/8/12 |
| 1.1 | Conversion to GitBook markdown format | 4/18/18 |