Implementing MicroPython as an Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) Test Framework

Python* is a popular high-level interpreted language, common in automated testing environments. TianoCore includes an open source CPython implementation for UEFI, but it has limited functionality and isn’t compliant with current Python standards.

This session describes the process of porting MicroPython to UEFI. MicroPython is a Python 3 variant designed for microcontrollers. Memory and size optimizations make MicroPython ideal for pre-OS applications. This presentation describes implementation details, performance metrics, and an open source test framework based on the MicroPython engine for UEFI.