[coreboot] Re: [GSoC 2022] Interested in Contributing to coreboot.

[Ahamed Husni]

+ Simon Glass

The current U-Boot payload in coreboot supports UEFI.
In the UEFI working group meeting there was a suggestion to take just
the UEFI code from U-Boot and build our own payload for coreboot.

On Sat, Mar 12, 2022 at 11:41 PM ron minnich  wrote:
> so is your plan to port the UEFI code as a payload or to  use u-boot
> as a payload and then use their UEFI support?
>
> On Sat, Mar 12, 2022 at 9:36 AM Ahamed Husni 
> wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > On Fri, Feb 25, 2022 at 4:21 PM Ahamed Husni
>
> wrote:
> > > Dear All,
> > >
> > > I am hoping to apply for the GSoC 2022 program. I am really interested
>
> in contributing to the coreboot project as I love to work with low level
> development.
> > > I completed the pre-requisites mentioned in the documentation.
> > >
> > > I built a 32-bit EFI binary in the gnu-efi environment. I used U-Boot
>
> as the payload for coreboot to test this EFI binary. The target is
> x86_64(QEMU).
> > > Serial output:
>
> https://gist.github.com/drac98/6166d29f6c3a2baf2f4e791925ea98d3
> > > I sent a patch for review about a year ago related to adding
>
> heap-out-of-bound detection support to AddressSanitizer port. If this is
> not acceptable as my first patch for review, please let me know. I can fix
> some coding styles or do a simple task given by the community.
> > > PATCH: https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/51787
> > >
> > > I find the "Add U-BOOT's UEFI payload as a coreboot payload" project
>
> mentioned in the coreboot project collection interesting to me. I have no
> prior experience with UEFI. As a starting point I learned to build and run
> an EFI binary with coreboot using the U-Boot payload.
> > > Please let me know what I should do next to learn and prepare for this
>
> project.
> > > Thanks & Best regards,
> > > Husni.
> >
> > I reached out to the U-Boot community to check the current status of the
>
> UEFI. Please find the thread here:
> https://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2022-March/477682.html
> > I have a few questions about the project.
> > What should be the deliverables for this project?
> > Do we need 64-bit EFI support (U-Boot doesn't support 64bit EFI)?
> > How do we develop a payload? Is it done using libpayload?
> > Is this a medium sized project or a large project?
> >
> > --Husni