Project Mu

Project Mu is an open source release of the UEFI core used in Microsoft Surface and Hyper-V products initiated by Microsoft in December 2018.[1] The project promotes the idea of Firmware as a Service.[2] The project's GitHub page describes the project as follows

Project Mu is a modular adaptation of TianoCore's edk2 tuned for building modern devices using a scalable, maintainable, and reusable pattern. Mu is built around the idea that shipping and maintaining a UEFI product is an ongoing collaboration between numerous partners. For too long the industry has built products using a "forking" model combined with copy/paste/rename and with each new product the maintenance burden grows to such a level that updates are near impossible due to cost and risk.[3]

Project Mu
Developer(s)Microsoft
Initial releaseMarch 5, 2002 (2002-03-05)
Stable release
1911_RC2 / March 24, 2020 (2020-03-24)
Repositorygithub.com/Microsoft/mu
Written inC, C++
TypeFirmware
LicenseBSD 2-Clause
Websitemicrosoft.github.io/mu

The project was started to replace TianoCore's edk2 implementation to improve quality tests of the competing open source UEFI core.[4]

References
  1. Microsoft Announces "Project Mu" For Open-Source UEFI Alternative To TianoCore - Phoronix
  2. "Microsoft announces Project Mu, an open-source release of the UEFI core".
  3. "Project Mu".
  4. "Microsoft announces Project Mu to promote Firmware as a Service".
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