Use BinToImg.py to analyze UEFI BIOS

We can use BinToImg.py to analyze UEFI BIOS. Below is the input files.

• BIOS.rom - A capsule file built by EDK build system.
• SPI0.bin - A binary file dumped from SPI ROM 0 after first booting.
• SPI1.bin - A binary file dumped from SPI ROM 1 after first booting.

The tool BinToImg.py transfers a byte to 8 pixels with black-white color. For example,

Byte = 55h = 01010101

Pixels 
  = 1 -> 0 -> 1 -> 0 -> 1 -> 0 ->1 -> 0

  = black, white, black, white, black, white, black, white

We use the below commands to generate PNG files with black-white bit pixels from the input files.

python3 BinToImg.py -w 6000 BIOS.rom
python3 BinToImg.py -w 6000 SPI0.bin

python3 BinToImg.py -w 6000 SPI1.bin

The option -w 6000 means that the tool generates an image of which width is 6000 pixels.

Below are the generated PNG files. I consider any BIOS engineer know what happens by observing  these images, especially for BIOS.rom.png and SPI1.bin.png.

BIOS.rom.png


SPI1.bin.png


SPI0.bin.png


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