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, > > > > > >
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