gotcha. Makes sense to use the UEFI code from u-boot as a payload.

note that I used that code to tell me how to write rundxerun,
https://talks.osfc.io/osfc2021/talk/VSPKZG/,  it's very readable ;-)

ron

On Sat, Mar 12, 2022 at 10:27 AM Ahamed Husni <ahamedhusni73@gmail.com> wrote:
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> + 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 <rminnich@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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 <ahamedhusni73@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi everyone,
>> >
>> > On Fri, Feb 25, 2022 at 4:21 PM Ahamed Husni <ahamedhusni73@gmail.com> 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