Re: UEFI PC?
On Sun, Nov 17, 2019 at 10:14:05PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
>Steve McIntyre, le dim. 17 nov. 2019 20:36:13 +0000, a ecrit:
>> 1. adding UEFI support in debian-cd for the hurd-i386 CD
>> build. That's easy
>
>Yes, that's now on
>https://salsa.debian.org/images-team/debian-cd/merge_requests/5
>
>> 3. Finally (the elephant in the room) - booting via UEFI is not the
>> same as BIOS boot.
>
>gnumach uses multiboot, so it should be quite similar actually.
>
>> to support UEFI initialisation etc.
>
>What I can think of is memory layout initialization and PCI BIOS
>support, do you think of anything else?
I'm not the expert here, but off the top of my head you'll also need
to deal with UEFI boot-time and/or runtime services, and you'll
probably need to make your initial boot binary be a PE UEFI
executable. I'm sure there's probably more - I'd look at the Linux
UEFI boot path.
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