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Raspberry Pi 3 UEFI Firmware Images
https://github.com/pftf/RPi3
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Raspberry Pi 3 UEFI Firmware Images
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/pftf/RPi3
- Owner: pftf
- License: other
- Created: 2019-07-19T15:10:43.000Z (over 5 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2023-06-05T10:52:21.000Z (over 1 year ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-04-27T19:35:28.851Z (7 months ago)
- Topics: edk2, edk2-platforms, firmware, firmware-updates, raspberry-pi, raspberry-pi-3, uefi, uefi-development, uefi-firmware, wlan
- Homepage:
- Size: 2.23 MB
- Stars: 262
- Watchers: 27
- Forks: 29
- Open Issues: 17
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: Readme.md
- License: License.txt
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# Summary
This repository contains installable builds of the official
[EDK2 Raspberry Pi 3 UEFI firmware](https://github.com/tianocore/edk2-platforms/tree/master/Platform/RaspberryPi/RPi3).
The use of this firmware can __greatly simplify__ the installation of generic Linux
distributions such as [Debian](https://pete.akeo.ie/2019/07/installing-debian-arm64-on-raspberry-pi.html)
or [Ubuntu](https://github.com/tianocore/edk2-platforms/blob/master/Platform/RaspberryPi/RPi3/Systems.md#Ubuntu)
as well as [Windows 10](https://www.worproject.ml/) (in regular GUI mode, not IoT mode),
straight from their ISO images.
The original development of this firmware was carried out by
[Ard Biesheuvel](http://www.workofard.com/2017/02/uefi-on-the-pi/) and
[Andrei Warkentin](https://github.com/andreiw/RaspberryPiPkg).
# Installation
* Download the latest archive from the [Releases](https://github.com/pftf/RPi3/releases) repository.
* Create an SD card (or USB drive if you plan to use [USB Boot](https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/hardware/raspberrypi/bootmodes/msd.md))
in `MBR` mode with a single partition of type `0x0c` (`FAT32 LBA`) or `0x0e`
(`FAT16 LBA`). Then format this partition to `FAT32`.
__Note:__ Do not try to use `GPT` for the partition scheme or `0xef` (`EFI System
Partition`) for the type, as these are unsupported by the CPU-embedded bootloader.
* Extract all the files from the archive onto the partition you created above.
Note that outside of this `Readme.md`, which you can safely remove, you should not
change the name of the extracted files and directories.
* With recent Linux installs, please assure that the firmware is running in DT mode, either via
"Device Manager"->"Raspberry Pi Configuration"->"Advanced Configuration"->"System Table Selection"
or the Linux/Grub command line with "acpi=off".
# Usage
Insert the SD card/plug the USB drive and power up your Raspberry Pi. You should see a
multicoloured screen (which indicates that the CPU-embedded bootloader is reading the
data from the SD/USB partition) and then the Raspberry Pi black and white logo once the
UEFI firmware is ready.
At this stage, you can press Esc to enter the firmware setup, F1
to launch the UEFI Shell, or, provided you also have copied an UEFI bootloader in
`efi/boot/bootaa64.efi`, you can let the UEFI system run that (which it should do by
default if no action is taken).
# License
The firmware (`RPI_EFI.fd`) is licensed under the current EDK2 license, which is
[BSD-2-Clause-Patent](https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/blob/master/License.txt).
The other files at the root of the zip archives are licensed under the terms described in the
[Raspberry Pi boot files README](https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/blob/master/README.md).
The binary blobs in the `firmware/` directory are licensed under the Cypress wireless driver
license that is found there.