Hello EDK II Devs,
Apologies if this isn't the best place to ask this. I've been lurking a
bit and while it is mostly commits here, I have seen the occasional
question from people trying to understand UEFI, and they didn't seem to
meet with hostility, so I thought I'd try. By all means, if there is a
better place for me to ask this please do give me a "gentle kick" in the
right direction :-)
I have spent a fair amount of time investigating UEFI. I have the EDK II
installed and I have successfully created a bootable USB Stick with the
UEFI shell, the Python interpreter, the HelloWorld AppPkg, etc.
All this I need to know and it has been very useful, but now I am at a
cross-roads. I need to decide if I should go down the rabbit hole and try
to leverage UEFI to acheive my goals, or if I should stick with the current
approach are using of using BIOS and/or UEFI to boot a non-UEFI Based
solution.
My idealistic goal is very simple:
Create a UEFI Based Software System that can do Hardware Validation /
Verification in a cross platform way, such that the 64 bit Intel/AMD
version tests the NIC, USB System, COM Subsystem, RAM, etc. in a dynamic
way without the need to write custom code for each system. In order for
this project to be feasible the same code must run on multiple motherboards
from multiple manufacturers without the need to write custom code for each
system.
In other words:
As I try the code on different motherboards from different
manufacturers is it feasible to write code abstractly such that it
determines the hardware at runtime and tests it sans intimate knowledge of
the Chipsets, etc?
Finally, if it is feasible I assume I would need to understand, and stick
to, the bare minimum that UEFI compliance guarantees, but I have yet to
find where that is documented. Is there a central location that documents
this all in one place, or do you have to search through the entire spec and
cherry pich them?
Apologies for the length of my post, but I'm hoping the added information
will provide helpful context to whomever might have an answer or set of
answers for me.
Thanks,
Jim Dines
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