I am a potential student applicant for the Google SoC 2007 program. And I am strongly interested in the LinuxBIOS project, especially for the "GNUFI or TianoCore payloads" idea. I have some background of EFI-related development, such as knowledge about (U)EFI spec. and EFI driver/application development in the Tiano platform, etc. But I know little about hardware or chips.
The "GNUEFI or TianoCore payloads" idea is to get an UEFI implementation as the LinuxBIOS payload. Essentially, LinuxBIOS need to provide the interfaces for the GNUFI or TianoCore core foundation for this purpose, I think. I wonder whether this project idea, namely "GNUEFI or Tiano payloads", needs the LinuxBIOS hardware platform for development environment and some chips knowledge. Or some emulation development environments are enough.
Hi,
On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 09:09:02PM -0800, xiongyi wrote:
I am a potential student applicant for the Google SoC 2007 program. And I am
Great to hear! Welcome :)
strongly interested in the LinuxBIOS project, especially for the "GNUFI or TianoCore payloads" idea. I have some background of EFI-related development, such as knowledge about (U)EFI spec. and EFI driver/application development in the Tiano platform, etc. But I know little about hardware or chips.
The "GNUEFI or TianoCore payloads" idea is to get an UEFI implementation as the LinuxBIOS payload. Essentially, LinuxBIOS need to provide the interfaces for the GNUFI or TianoCore core foundation for this purpose, I think. I wonder whether this project idea, namely "GNUEFI or Tiano payloads", needs the LinuxBIOS hardware platform for development environment and some chips knowledge. Or some emulation development environments are enough.
I guess for most things you can use QEMU for your development and testing. See this page in the wiki for more information:
http://linuxbios.org/QEMU_Build_Tutorial
I don't know how hardware-dependent (U)EFI is or has to be, though. For certain parts you might have to use actual hardware...
Uwe.
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xiongyi