> On Mar 12, 2021, at 5:07 AM, Pedro Falcato <pedro.falc...@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. > > 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, > Pedro Falcato > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#72735): https://edk2.groups.io/g/devel/message/72735 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/81290134/21656 Group Owner: devel+ow...@edk2.groups.io Unsubscribe: https://edk2.groups.io/g/devel/unsub [arch...@mail-archive.com] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
