Re: [edk2-devel] GSoC 2021 (MinPlatform, Ext2, ACPICA, etc) (please ignore if duplicate)

Re: [edk2-devel] GSoC 2021 (MinPlatform, Ext2, ACPICA, etc) (please ignore if duplicate)

[Laszlo Ersek]

adding Nate

On 03/12/21 18:15, Pedro Falcato wrote:
> Hi everyone!
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> 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. Please ignore this email if it's a duplicate, since I tried sending an email directly to the mailing list's email address but that doesn't seem to work.
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> So, a few questions:
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> 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?
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> 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.
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> 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?
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> 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!
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> Thanks,
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