EFI Boot Guard

A bootloader based on UEFI.

Provides the following functionality:

• Arm a hardware watchdog prior to loading an OS
• Provides a simple update mechanism with fail-save algorithm

Development

Mailing list: efibootguard-dev@googlegroups.com

Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/efibootguard-dev@googlegroups.com/

For sending patches, please refer to the mailing list and CONTRIBUTING.md in the source tree.

Continuous integration:

• Travis CI:
  • Master branch:
  • Next branch:
• Coverity:

Watchdog support

The following watchdog drivers are implemented:

• Intel Quark
• Intel TCO
• Intel i6300esb

Currently, it is not possible to disable the watchdog initialization. If no working watchdog is found, the boot process fails.

Configuration

efibootguard reads its configuration from an environment storage. Currently, the following environment backends are implemented:

• Dual FAT Partition storage

See Installation And Usage for further information.

Further Documentation

• Update Mechanism
• Environment Tools
• API Library
• Compilation Instructions
• Installation And Usage
• Future Work