From: "Andrew Fish" <afish@apple.com>
To: edk2-devel-groups-io <devel@edk2.groups.io>, pedro.falcato@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [edk2-devel] GSoC 2021 (MinPlatform, Ext2, ACPICA, etc)
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2021 16:51:20 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49D6FCF5-295B-4228-A625-257A3F25EE57@apple.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKbZUD2G2XqJzZgHdY2oyYP_sJ8Sxj=jiSTosTvaNL96=WyY2w@mail.gmail.com>
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> On Mar 12, 2021, at 5:07 AM, Pedro Falcato <pedro.falcato@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi everyone!
>
> I'm Pedro Falcato, a student from FCT Nova in Lisbon, Portugal. I've gotten a bunch of experience over the years with C/C++, x86 in general and UEFI/ACPI with my hobby OS/kernel development, and I've got to say, I'm quite interested in some of the projects you've got here.
>
> So, a few questions:
>
> 1) What entails building a MinPlatform board port for any board whatsoever? I've seen Kaaira wants to do the Qemu port, I would love to do something like that but for the RPi or some real motherboard, but I fear it might be too difficult?
>
> 2) How much knowledge of EFI firmware internals do you need? With my EFI bootloader development over the years I already have a firm hand on how the external-facing API looks like, but I have to say I haven't really read the parts of the spec that describe the driver and internal APIs, so to speak.
>
Pedro,
Knowing UEFI is a really good baseline. Tianocore is UEFI + edk2 Build System + UEFI Platform initialization Specification [1],
There is some training here: [2]
Some of us also sit on the spec committees so you can usually get good quality answers to questions on the mailing list.
[1] https://uefi.org/specifications
[2] https://github.com/tianocore/tianocore.github.io/wiki/UEFI-EDKII-Learning-Dev
Thanks,
Andrew Fish
> 3) Isn't there already an ACPICA port for UEFI environments? What stops us from going one step further and also build the rest of the "user-space" utilities?
>
> 4) How's the status of the ext2 driver? How different do Tianocore filesystem implementations look from the standard-ish kernel interfaces you can see in Linux, *BSD, etc? I'm also quite interested in this one because I've written a read/write ext2 driver before, so the concepts are kind-of fresh in my head.
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> I hope you folks can answer my questions so I can figure out what project I want to work on! :)
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> Looking forward to working in Tianocore!
>
> Thanks,
> Pedro Falcato
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Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-12 13:07 [edk2-devel] GSoC 2021 (MinPlatform, Ext2, ACPICA, etc) pedro.falcato
2021-03-13 0:51 ` Andrew Fish [this message]
2021-03-13 17:01 ` Pedro Falcato
2021-03-16 0:25 ` Nate DeSimone
2021-03-23 14:16 ` Pedro Falcato
2021-03-28 22:31 ` Nate DeSimone
2021-03-28 22:42 ` Bret Barkelew
2021-03-31 20:45 ` Pedro Falcato
2021-03-31 20:43 ` Pedro Falcato
2021-03-31 23:13 ` Nate DeSimone
2021-04-04 10:50 ` Pedro Falcato
2021-04-04 15:33 ` Andrew Fish
2021-04-06 7:24 ` Nate DeSimone
2021-04-06 18:51 ` Pedro Falcato
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