From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from us-smtp-delivery-124.mimecast.com (us-smtp-delivery-124.mimecast.com [63.128.21.124]) by mx.groups.io with SMTP id smtpd.web09.1625.1615586321404738054 for ; Fri, 12 Mar 2021 13:58:41 -0800 Authentication-Results: mx.groups.io; dkim=pass header.i=@redhat.com header.s=mimecast20190719 header.b=E2wAs6o9; spf=pass (domain: redhat.com, ip: 63.128.21.124, mailfrom: lersek@redhat.com) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=redhat.com; s=mimecast20190719; t=1615586320; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=qEepsun/sTjz86B7kiHUyguVn8iP1/+CFTRTolcovsY=; b=E2wAs6o90b4XtqFQsvGNuHjsjwGkRT5etuquDvn8+NDI+/gIDYNHXZrnQ3ybQj5D0Yh1jv Y5mUkYrim8id/PSju68sCb4ZS/EeNB1G9RDKgz/ATVsCL/lxwp3fvIRSYhNqsKbNpD7A2x 76n5EeUT6YeaPejV+mRwglkxlwcc7Vc= Received: from mimecast-mx01.redhat.com (mimecast-mx01.redhat.com [209.132.183.4]) (Using TLS) by relay.mimecast.com with ESMTP id us-mta-468-1x3W-uI0NT2eRpa2uQiXNQ-1; Fri, 12 Mar 2021 16:58:37 -0500 X-MC-Unique: 1x3W-uI0NT2eRpa2uQiXNQ-1 Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx02.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.12]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mimecast-mx01.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6EE15100C666; Fri, 12 Mar 2021 21:58:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lacos-laptop-7.usersys.redhat.com (ovpn-112-80.ams2.redhat.com [10.36.112.80]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9658A60C5F; Fri, 12 Mar 2021 21:58:35 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: [edk2-devel] GSoC 2021 (MinPlatform, Ext2, ACPICA, etc) (please ignore if duplicate) To: devel@edk2.groups.io, pedro.falcato@gmail.com, Nate DeSimone References: From: "Laszlo Ersek" Message-ID: Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2021 22:58:34 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.79 on 10.5.11.12 Authentication-Results: relay.mimecast.com; auth=pass smtp.auth=CUSA124A263 smtp.mailfrom=lersek@redhat.com X-Mimecast-Spam-Score: 0 X-Mimecast-Originator: redhat.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit adding Nate On 03/12/21 18:15, Pedro Falcato 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. 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. > > 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. > > 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. > > I hope you folks can answer my questions so I can figure out what project I want to work on! :) > > Looking forward to working in Tianocore! > > Thanks, > > > > > >