Tag: Leif Lindholm

Leif on QEMU and USB host device pass-through

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Leif has a new blog post on using UEFI with USB pass-through.

[…]”One thing that is unsurprising, but very cool and useful, is that this works well cross-architecture. So you can test that your drivers are truly portable by building (and testing) them for AARCH64, EBC and X64 without having to move around between physical machines. ”

http://blog.eciton.net/uefi/qemu-usb-passthrough.html

Checkout his previous blog post, on UEFI driver development, as well as older posts on Linaro/ARM/UEFI history.

 

EBC adds AArch64 support!

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UEFI has a bytecode, the uEfi ByteCode (EBC). It has traditionally been a bytecode used to consolidate all 3 Intel platforms (x86, x64, Itanic), into a single bytecode, so there only needs to be a single driver on the flash, saving flash memory. Unfortunately, it only supported Intel platforms, not ARM, so it was not a universal bytecode for EFI, only a bytecode for Intel systems. Now, someone has ported AArch64 to ARM, so now EBC may now be more interesting!

Import the AArch64 EBC implementation from
https://source.codeaurora.org/external/server/edk2-blue/

Tested with MdeModulePkg/Application/HelloWorld built for EBC.
Would appreciate some reviewing and testing.

Jeff Brasen (1):
  MdeModulePkg/EbcDxe: Add AARCH64 EBC VM support

Leif Lindholm (1):
  ArmVirtPkg: enable EBC interpreter for AArch64 QEMU

More info:
http://lists.01.org/pipermail/edk2-devel/

ARM’s EDK-II maintainer leaves ARM Ltd for Labapart.com

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Today, Oliver Martin, the TianoCore EDK2 maintainer for the ARM packages for the last 4 years, is leaving ARM, this is his last week. Oliver didn’t give many details on his new project:

Unfortunately, it is still too early to share more details about my future product, so I created a quick website (and found a neutral name) last week-end to allow people to follow the adventure: http://labapart.com/ (can either be pronounced as “Lab apart” or “Lab à Part”).

Given his background with ARM and UEFI, I’ll be curious to see if this new product is at all related…

As I understand it, Leif Lindholm of ARM will take over as new EDK2 ARM role; he has been co-maintainer for the last few months, is experienced with open source, Linux, and has been working on UEFI for Linaro for the last few years.

More Information:
edk2-devel mailing list archives (Subject: Farewell – last days at ARM Ltd)
http://labapart.com/

Spring Plugfest presentations uploaded

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The PDFs of the presentations from last months’ UEFI Forum plugfest have been uploaded to uefi.org.

http://www.uefi.org/learning_center/presentationsandvideos
(scroll about half-way through the page, after the Youtube videos…)

* System Prep Applications – Powerful New Feature in UEFI 2.5 – Kevin Davis (Insyde Software)
* Filling UEFI/FW Gaps in the Cloud – Mallik Bulusu (Microsoft) and Vincent Zimmer (Intel)
* PreBoot Provisioning Solutions with UEFI – Zachary Bobroff (AMI)
* An Overview of ACPICA Userspace Tools – David Box (Intel)
* UEFI Firmware – Securing SMM – Dick Wilkins (Phoenix Technologies)
* Overview of Windows 10 Requirements for TPM, HVCI and SecureBoot – Gabe Stocco, Scott Anderson and Suhas Manangi (Microsoft)
* Porting a PCI Driver to ARM AArch64 Platforms – Olivier Martin (ARM)
* Firmware in the Data Center: Goodbye PXE and IPMI. Welcome HTTP Boot and Redfish! – Samer El-Haj-Mahmoud (Hewlett Packard)
* A Common Platforms Tree – Leif Lindholm (Linaro)

This’ll be a very short blog, as I’m busy reading 9 new PDFs… 🙂 I’ll do blogs on some these specific presentations in the coming days.