you know what you should do ? share your findings! P5Q Deluxe have AMI Aptio test bios as well (sticky), we can assume mobo manufactures will eventualy switch to it, so it would be nice to know in advance in which directions to go, when trying to add slic in also andyp, yen and co can make some automatization tool out of it GJ otherwise!
You guys are so funny. You sit here and wait for a kind magician which will tell you how to mod AMI Aptio UEFI staff. But the most funny thing is your crying: "UEFI is the end of BIOS modding", "Give us tools for UEFI BIOS modding" etc. Don't be so lazy! All UEFI documentation is available on Intel site. Download pdf-files and read it carefully. All the structures of UEFI BIOS are described in details (volumes, files, sections, compression). I spent one day for documentation studying and when I completely understood UEFI BIOS structure, it took me 10 minutes to insert SLIC 2.1 instead of 2.0 into MSI GX600 AMI Aptio BIOS without any tools. BIOS modding has never been so simple. Don't you understand that when all BIOS vendors start to use UEFI it will be possible to create one universal tool for modding ANY BIOS. Think about it and finally read the f**king UEFI documentation . Update: Hey, I've downloaded P5Q Deluxe UEFI BIOS. Its structure is the same as in MSI GX600. Try to guess: how much time it takes to insert SLIC 2.1 into this BIOS? You are right - 5 minutes .
I have written my thoughts of a AMI Aptio (UEFI) modding in this sticky topic "Efi bios----P5Q Deluxe now with (U)EFI available--TOOLS NEEDED!!".
well seeing you have done the research perhaps you'll just be so kind as to tell everyone how you did it, no point 10 other people spending the time to research when you've done it already, counter productive information sharing is what this place is all about! any help is always appreciated!!! It's great you were able to mod it
What a charming attitude. I have read some of the documentation and am comfortable with the structure. I am glad you read it as well, and clearly made more progress than I. I have not found a SLIC in either the Intel UEFI or AMI UEFI here. I am more than happy to be corrected. As far as reading (all 1000 pages) of the f**king documentation, this is not my day job, far from it. I am not a professional in IT in any respect. I write and maintain the 3 tools. I have spent a chunk of time disassembling Sony Phoenix BIOSes to remove (hopefully) the last remaining lock. If everyone contributes something then we all benefit. I would be delighted if you show us your findings for uefi. Parsing is fine. I am especially interested in compressing/decompressing (although I see how that is done and just need to find x86 code - I will try to compile the code from the Intel specs but I am crap at C++), and where you found the SLIC (I can't see it, perhaps I am being stupid), are there any checksum issues, and finally, does it work!! You also have the advantage of actually being able to test.... I unfortunately do not have any UEFI hardware. Andy
Yen I can answer concrete questions only. I've got no time to write huge messages about UEFI basics. Especially when Intel has already made it instead of me. anmg Give me a link to such BIOS.
Well, whether you help or not, I am sure we will figure it out. Thanks for the link to the PDFs.... I had already found two of them which I referenced when writing the module parsing code. Andy