Re: Structure of Tianocore?

[Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>]

On 11/24/18 17:41, Peter Wiehe wrote:
> I have a question for understanding the Tianocore structure:
> 
> Correct me, please, if something of the following assumptions is wrong.
> 
> a) EmulatorPkg and the Unix and Win32 (Nt32Pkg) package run ontop of an OS.
> 
> b) Ovmf runs ontop of Qemu.
> 
> c) There is a package which runs ontop of coreboot or SeaBios which can be
> run (theoretically) ontop of real hardware and Qemu. On Qemu it is slow, of
> course. On real hardware you have to flash the Bios and Uefi which, of
> course, can screw up your computer.
> 
> Which would be the package mentioned in c)?

AIUI, coreboot payload support is provided in the Coreboot*Pkg packages.
I've never tried them, but I suspect the tianocore wiki has some
articles on them.

The other package (for running UEFI on top of traditional BIOS, on a
physical machine) is DuetPkg. It's being removed:

https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1322

Thanks
Laszlo