Fiano
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The facts
Each one read from Fiano's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- DXE Cleaner
- The DXE Cleaner removes unnecessary DXE modules, which the project says can free space, speed boot times, and decrease attack surface area.checked 5 Oct 2026
- FMAP
- The fmap tool parses flash maps and offers checksum, extract, summary, usage, and verify commands.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Image inspection
- UTK can display firmware images as tables or JSON and find files using a regular expression.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Image modification
- UTK can dump, insert, remove, replace, extract, and reassemble firmware image files.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Installation requirement
- The README says Go version 1.13 is required and gives Go install commands for UTK and fmap.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Install location
- The README says the executables are installed in $HOME/go/bin.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Integration
- The release notes list u-root versions among the versions Fiano was tested with.checked 5 Oct 2026
- License
- The repository includes a BSD 3-Clause license permitting redistribution and use in source and binary forms, subject to its conditions.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- Fiano is a set of Go-based tools for modifying UEFI firmware.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Release availability
- The GitHub releases page says there are no releases available there.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Support and contribution
- The contribution guide directs bug reports to GitHub issues and project discussion to Slack and a mailing list.checked 5 Oct 2026
- UTK
- UTK is a generic UEFI toolkit for working with ROM images.checked 5 Oct 2026
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