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MinnowBoard MAX

MinnowBoard Max UEFI Firmware

What is the MinnowBoard Max : This is the open community project with UEFI Developed firmware.

UEFI devleopment on MinnowBoard Max covers firmware, pre-OS applications, drivers, and OS loaders. MinnowBoard Max allows development of low-level features on Intel® architecture in an open source environment.

MinnowBoard Max is an open hardware project based on the Intel® Atom™ processor. Technical details, schematics, and information on expansion boards (Lures) can be found at MinnowBoard.org

Documentation and Binary images of Minnowboard MAX are at: firmware.intel.com MinnowMax

Latest UEFI Firmware Releases

Follow the instructions below to download the latest firmware releases to update your MinnowBoard Max firmware. Example uses "Git" and the EDK II workspace of "MyWorkSpace" .

Versions prior to release .91 use "SVN'" instead of "Git"

Minnow MAX releases
Release How to Download Date
Rel .91
  1. Download MinnowBoard Max Branch from GitHub with the following example using Git:
    1. git clone https://github.com/tianocore/edk2-platforms.git -b minnowboard-max-udk2015
    2. git checkout b5b4fb5aaf910a42fec5391d18f10e25ce269f3f
    3. Rename "edk2-platforms" to "MyWorkspace" to avoid the long paths
  2. Download BaseTools binaries from GitHub with the following example using Git:
    1. git clone https://github.com/tianocore/edk2-BaseTools-win32.git
    2. git checkout ea691aec89b06aa83474100df1de000a875b4ea0
    3. Rename this folder name from edk2-BaseTools-win32/ to Win32/, then copy Win32/ to BaseTool Binary folder (e.g. "/MyWorkspace/BaseTools/Bin/")
  3. Download Objects zip: MinnowBoard_MAX-0.91-Binary.Objects.zip
  4. Extract the contents of the MinnowBoard_MAX-0.91-Binary.Objects ZIP file placing the contents into the respective folders (e.g. MyWorkspace as above).
  5. To Build see “HOW TO BUILD . . .” in the release notes HowToBuildMinnowMax.txt
  6. For more details about this release See: MAX Rel 0.91 ReleaseNotes.txt
April 22, 2016
Rel .90
  1. Download Open source with the following example using SVN:
    svn export –r 16867 https://svn.code.sf.net/p/edk2/code/branches/UDK2014.SP1 MyWorkSpace
  2. Download Vlv2DeviceRefCodePkg Open source:
    svn export –r 19757 https://svn.code.sf.net/p/edk2/code/branches/UDK2014.SP1/Vlv2DeviceRefCodePkg
  3. Copy Vlv2DeviceRefCodePkg directory to the MyWorkSpace directory above
  4. Download Vlv2TbltDevicePkg Open source:
    svn export –r 19757 https://svn.code.sf.net/p/edk2/code/branches/UDK2014.SP1/Vlv2TbltDevicePkg
  5. Copy Vlv2TbltDevicePkg directory to the MyWorkSpace directory above
  6. Download Fat Open source:
    svn export –r 92 https://svn.code.sf.net/p/edk2-fatdriver2/code/trunk/FatPkg
  7. Copy FatPkg directory to the MyWorkSpace directory above
  8. Download Objects zip: MinnowBoard_MAX-0.90-Binary.Objects.zip
  9. Extract the contents of the MinnowBoard_MAX-0.90-Binary.Objects ZIP file placing the contents into the respective folders (e.g. MyWorkspace as above).
  10. To Build see “HOW TO BUILD . . .” in the release notes HowToBuildMinnowMax.txt
  11. For more details about this release See: MinnowBoard MAX Rel 0.90 ReleaseNotes.txt
Jan 29, 2016
Rel .83
  1. Download Open source with the following example using SVN:
    svn export –r 16867 https://svn.code.sf.net/p/edk2/code/branches/UDK2014.SP1 MyWorkSpace
  2. Download Vlv2DeviceRefCodePkg Open source:
    svn export –r 18508 https://svn.code.sf.net/p/edk2/code/branches/UDK2014.SP1/Vlv2DeviceRefCodePkg
  3. Copy Vlv2DeviceRefCodePkg directory to the MyWorkSpace directory above
  4. Download Vlv2TbltDevicePkg Open source:
    svn export –r 18508 https://svn.code.sf.net/p/edk2/code/branches/UDK2014.SP1/Vlv2TbltDevicePkg
  5. Copy Vlv2TbltDevicePkg directory to the MyWorkSpace directory above
  6. Download Fat Open source:
    svn export –r 92 https://svn.code.sf.net/p/edk2-fatdriver2/code/trunk/FatPkg
  7. Copy FatPkg directory to the MyWorkSpace directory above
  8. Download Objects zip: MinnowBoard_MAX-0.83-Binary.Objects.zip
  9. Extract the contents of the MinnowBoard_MAX-0.83-Binary.Objects ZIP file placing the contents into the respective folders (e.g. MyWorkspace as above).
  10. To Build see “HOW TO BUILD . . .” in the release notes HowToBuildMinnowMax.txt
Sept 24, 2015
Rel .82
  1. Download Open source with the following example using SVN:
    svn export –r 16867 https://svn.code.sf.net/p/edk2/code/branches/UDK2014.SP1 MyWorkSpace
  2. Download Vlv2DeviceRefCodePkg Open source:
    svn export –r 18103 https://svn.code.sf.net/p/edk2/code/branches/UDK2014.SP1/Vlv2DeviceRefCodePkg
  3. Copy Vlv2DeviceRefCodePkg directory to the MyWorkSpace directory above
  4. Download Vlv2TbltDevicePkg Open source:
    svn export –r 18103 https://svn.code.sf.net/p/edk2/code/branches/UDK2014.SP1/Vlv2TbltDevicePkg
  5. Copy Vlv2TbltDevicePkg directory to the MyWorkSpace directory above
  6. Download Fat Open source:
    svn export –r 92 https://svn.code.sf.net/p/edk2-fatdriver2/code/trunk/FatPkg
  7. Copy FatPkg directory to the MyWorkSpace directory above
  8. Download Objects zip: MinnowBoard_MAX-0.82-Binary.Objects.zip
  9. Extract the contents of the MinnowBoard_MAX-0.82-Binary.Objects ZIP file placing the contents into the respective folders (e.g. MyWorkspace as above).
  10. To Build see “HOW TO BUILD . . .” in the release notes :
Release Notes 		July 31, 2015
Rel .80
  1. Download Open source with the following example using SVN:
    svn export –r 16867 https://svn.code.sf.net/p/edk2/code/branches/UDK2014.SP1 MyWorkSpace
  2. Download Vlv2DeviceRefCodePkg Open source:
    svn export –r 17407 https://svn.code.sf.net/p/edk2/code/branches/UDK2014.SP1/Vlv2DeviceRefCodePkg
  3. Copy Vlv2DeviceRefCodePkg directory to the MyWorkSpace directory above
  4. Download Vlv2TbltDevicePkg Open source:
    svn export –r 17407 https://svn.code.sf.net/p/edk2/code/branches/UDK2014.SP1/Vlv2TbltDevicePkg
  5. Copy Vlv2TbltDevicePkg directory to the MyWorkSpace directory above
  6. Download Fat Open source:
    svn export –r 92 https://svn.code.sf.net/p/edk2-fatdriver2/code/trunk/FatPkg
  7. Copy FatPkg directory to the MyWorkSpace directory above
  8. Download Objects zip: MinnowBoard_MAX-0.80-Binary.Objects.zip
  9. Extract the contents of the MinnowBoard_MAX-0.79-Binary.Objects ZIP file placing the contents into the respective folders (e.g. MyWorkspace as above).
  10. To Build see “HOW TO BUILD . . .” in the release notes :
Release Notes 		May 14, 2015
Rel .79
  1. Download Open source with the following example using SVN:
    svn export –r 16867 https://svn.code.sf.net/p/edk2/code/branches/UDK2014.SP1 MyWorkSpace
  2. Download Vlv2DeviceRefCodePkg Open source:
    svn export –r 17132 https://svn.code.sf.net/p/edk2/code/branches/UDK2014.SP1/Vlv2DeviceRefCodePkg
  3. Copy Vlv2DeviceRefCodePkg directory to the MyWorkSpace directory above
  4. Download Vlv2TbltDevicePkg Open source:
    svn export –r 17132 https://svn.code.sf.net/p/edk2/code/branches/UDK2014.SP1/Vlv2TbltDevicePkg
  5. Copy Vlv2TbltDevicePkg directory to the MyWorkSpace directory above
  6. Download Fat Open source:
    svn export –r 92 https://svn.code.sf.net/p/edk2-fatdriver2/code/trunk/FatPkg
  7. Copy FatPkg directory to the MyWorkSpace directory above
  8. Download Objects zip: MinnowBoard_MAX-0.79-Binary.Objects.ZIP
  9. Extract the contents of the MinnowBoard_MAX-0.79-Binary.Objects ZIP file placing the contents into the respective folders (e.g. MyWorkspace as above).
  10. To Build see “HOW TO BUILD . . .” in the release notes : Release Notes
April 10, 2015
Rel .77
  1. Download Open source with the following example using SVN:
    svn export –r 16679 https://svn.code.sf.net/p/edk2/code/branches/UDK2014.SP1 MyWorkSpace
  2. Download Fat Open source:
    svn export –r 92 https://svn.code.sf.net/p/edk2-fatdriver2/code/trunk/FatPkg
  3. Copy FatPkg directory to the MyWorkSpace directory above
  4. Download Objects zip: rel.77 .ZIP
  5. Extract the contents of the rel.77 ZIP file placing the contents into the respective folders (e.g. MyWorkspace as above).
  6. To Build see “HOW TO BUILD . . .” in the release notes : Release Notes
Feb 6, 2015
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