| What is This? |
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| This project contains some experiments in software that runs on UEFI |
| firmware for the purpose of exploring UEFI development and bootloader |
| development. |
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| Since UEFI images are in PE32+ file format, we require that our binaries be |
| position independent executables with no relocations. For the most part this |
| does not require any extra effort on x86-64, but it does mean that you cannot |
| statically initialize any variables that hold an address. (These addresses may |
| be assigned at runtime however.) |
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| External Software Included |
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| Local Path: third_party/ovmf/... |
| Description: UEFI Firmware Suitable for use in Qemu |
| Distribution: http://www.tianocore.org/ovmf/ |
| Version: OVMF-X64-r15214.zip |
| License: BSD-ish, see ovmf/LICENSE |
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| External Dependencies |
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| qemu-system-x86_64 is needed to test in emulation |
| gnu parted and mtools are needed to generate the disk.img for Qemu |
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| Useful Resources & Documentation |
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| ACPI & UEFI Specifications |
| http://www.uefi.org/specifications |
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| Intel 64 and IA-32 Architecture Manuals |
| http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/processors/architectures-software-developer-manuals.html |
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| Tianocore UEFI Open Source Community |
| (Source for OVMF, EDK II Dev Environment, etc) |
| http://www.tianocore.org/ |
| https://github.com/tianocore |
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