[GSoC 2022] Interested in Contributing to coreboot.

[Ahamed Husni]

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.

[Ahamed Husni]

Hi everyone,

On Fri, Feb 25, 2022 at 4:21 PM Ahamed Husni <[e-mail]>
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

[ron minnich]

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 <[e-mail]> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> On Fri, Feb 25, 2022 at 4:21 PM Ahamed Husni <[e-mail]> 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

[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 <[e-mail]> 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 <[e-mail]>
> wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > On Fri, Feb 25, 2022 at 4:21 PM Ahamed Husni <[e-mail]>
>
> 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

[ron minnich]

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 <[e-mail]> wrote:
> + 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 <[e-mail]> 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 <[e-mail]> wrote:
> > > Hi everyone,
> > >
> > > On Fri, Feb 25, 2022 at 4:21 PM Ahamed Husni <[e-mail]> 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

[Ahamed Husni]

Haha... I watched that talk and I was just typing the question
"Were you using any U-Boot UEFI design principles in the RunDXERun project?"
I'll have to go through that again to take some notes :)

On Sun, Mar 13, 2022 at 12:12 AM ron minnich <[e-mail]> wrote:
> 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 <[e-mail]>
> wrote:
> > + 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 <[e-mail]> 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 <[e-mail]>
>
> wrote:
> > > > Hi everyone,
> > > >
> > > > On Fri, Feb 25, 2022 at 4:21 PM Ahamed Husni <[e-mail]>
> > >
> > > 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