Build Master EDK2 for Altrad8ud

Updated guide for building EDK2 firmware on the ASRock Rack ALTRAD8UD platform, superseding an earlier article focused on Mt. Jade. Altrad8ud support was committed to the EDK2 mainline several months ago by Rebecca.

Environment Setup (Ubuntu 24.04)

sudo apt install build-essential uuid-dev iasl nasm \
    gcc-aarch64-linux-gnu python3-distutils git

Clone the required repositories:

git clone https://github.com/tianocore/edk2.git
git clone https://github.com/tianocore/edk2-platforms.git
git clone https://github.com/tianocore/edk2-non-osi.git
git clone https://github.com/AmpereComputing/edk2-ampere-tools.git
git clone https://git.trustedfirmware.org/TF-A/trusted-firmware-a.git

Initialize BaseTools

cd edk2
git submodule update --init
make -C BaseTools
source edksetup.sh

Build ARM Trusted Firmware (ATF)

cd trusted-firmware-a
make CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-linux-gnu- PLAT=altra \
     bl31 fiptool certtool

Set Environment Variables

export WORKSPACE=/path/to/workspace
export PACKAGES_PATH=$WORKSPACE/edk2:$WORKSPACE/edk2-platforms:$WORKSPACE/edk2-non-osi
export VENDOR_NAME="ASRock Rack"
export BOARD_NAME="ALTRAD8UD"

Run buildfw.sh

# RELEASE build with Secure Boot and TPM2
./edk2-ampere-tools/buildfw.sh \
    -b RELEASE \
    -p AmpereAltraAltrad8udPkg \
    --secure-boot --tpm2

Available options include RELEASE/DEBUG, Secure Boot, networking, and TPM2.

Merge into Stock BIOS

The resulting EDK2 image is ~10MB and must be merged into the 32MB stock BIOS at offset 0x600000:

cp stock_bios.bin merged_bios.bin

dd if=edk2_image.bin of=merged_bios.bin bs=1 seek=$((0x600000)) conv=notrunc

# Package for WebGUI upload
tar czf altrad8ud_bios.tar.gz merged_bios.bin

Alternatively, deploy directly via the BMC interface.