Component Firmware Update (CFU) is a mechanism developed by the Microsoft Devices team which allows Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM’s) and Independent Hardware Vendors (IHV’s) a reliable, robust against power interruptions and authenticated mechanism for updating firmware for devices that have shipped to customers. This release contains a reference device driver for delivering the firmware payload to a target device, and reference firmware for receiving the firmware payload and associated documentation.

For an overview, read this post: Introducing Component Firmware Update and watch the WinHEC 2018 video on Component Firmware Update.

The Documentation folder contains the CFU protocol specification and the CFU Driver Design documenation.
The Host folder contains a link to the sample CFU protocol driver source code on GitHub.
The Firmware folder contains sample firmware source code for implementing the CFU protocol.
The Tools folder contains tools used with CFU.

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