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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.
External Software Included
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Local Path: third_party/gnu-efi/...
Description: headers and tooling to build UEFI binaries with gcc, etc
Project: https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnu-efi/
Source: git://git.code.sf.net/p/gnu-efi/code
Version: 6605c16fc8b1fd3b2085364902d1fa73aa7fad76 (post-3.0.4)
License: BSD-ish, see gnu-efi/README.*
Local Path: third_party/edk2/...
Description: ax88772b UEFI driver, as well as headers for UEFI from Tianocore EDK II
Project: http://www.tianocore.org/edk2/
Source: https://github.com/tianocore/edk2
License: BSD-ish, see headers
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
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
Useful Resources & Documentation
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ACPI & UEFI Specifications
http://www.uefi.org/specifications
Intel 64 and IA-32 Architecture Manuals
http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/processors/architectures-software-developer-manuals.html
Tianocore UEFI Open Source Community
(Source for OVMF, EDK II Dev Environment, etc)
http://www.tianocore.org/
https://github.com/tianocore