Re: [SeaBIOS] [coreboot] UEFI project ideas

[Zoran Stojsavljevic]

Hello Rudolf,

I already wrote about this, and this was in my plans TO DO (investigate)
for Y2016:
https://www.coreboot.org/pipermail/coreboot/2016-February/080969.html

Good that you again revamped this topic. I am on the same page with you.

Thank you,
Zoran

On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 10:05 PM, Rudolf Marek  wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I noticed that seabios/libpayload could have interresting use cases and I
> want
> to share/discuss them.
> Have a SeaBIOS be a UEFI application. This would benefit on UEFI
>
> platforms
> without CSM.
> Provide a minimum UEFI environment. As I noticed u-boot started to have
>
> such
> support. In fact it has UEFI glue to u-boot drivers. As such it provides a
> minimal boot services + minimum runtime services. In seabios, it is almost
> there, only PE loader and filesystem support is missing.
>
> The 2) could be perhaps be some independent project utilizing the coreboot
> libpayload library.
>
> Maybe those can be done in next year GSoC.
>
> I guess 2) could be useful to boot future OSes without legacy support.
>
> Thanks
> Rudolf