+ Simon Glass The current U-Boot payload in coreboot supports UEFI. In the UEFI working group meeting there was a suggestion to take just the UEFI code from U-Boot and build our own payload for coreboot.
On Sat, Mar 12, 2022 at 11:41 PM ron minnich <[email protected]> wrote: > so is your plan to port the UEFI code as a payload or to use u-boot > as a payload and then use their UEFI support? > > On Sat, Mar 12, 2022 at 9:36 AM Ahamed Husni <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > Hi everyone, > > > > On Fri, Feb 25, 2022 at 4:21 PM Ahamed Husni <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > > Dear All, > > > > > > I am hoping to apply for the GSoC 2022 program. I am really interested > in contributing to the coreboot project as I love to work with low level > development. > > > > > > I completed the pre-requisites mentioned in the documentation. > > > > > > I built a 32-bit EFI binary in the gnu-efi environment. I used U-Boot > as the payload for coreboot to test this EFI binary. The target is > x86_64(QEMU). > > > Serial output: > https://gist.github.com/drac98/6166d29f6c3a2baf2f4e791925ea98d3 > > > > > > I sent a patch for review about a year ago related to adding > heap-out-of-bound detection support to AddressSanitizer port. If this is > not acceptable as my first patch for review, please let me know. I can fix > some coding styles or do a simple task given by the community. > > > PATCH: https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/51787 > > > > > > I find the "Add U-BOOT's UEFI payload as a coreboot payload" project > mentioned in the coreboot project collection interesting to me. I have no > prior experience with UEFI. As a starting point I learned to build and run > an EFI binary with coreboot using the U-Boot payload. > > > > > > Please let me know what I should do next to learn and prepare for this > project. > > > > > > Thanks & Best regards, > > > Husni. > > > > I reached out to the U-Boot community to check the current status of the > UEFI. Please find the thread here: > https://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2022-March/477682.html > > > > I have a few questions about the project. > > What should be the deliverables for this project? > > Do we need 64-bit EFI support (U-Boot doesn't support 64bit EFI)? > > How do we develop a payload? Is it done using libpayload? > > Is this a medium sized project or a large project? > > > > --Husni >
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