rust-osdev / rust-osdev/bootloader
UEFI boot should provide runtime services to the kernel
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Description
UEFI runtime services can be useful for a variety of purposes. Some kernels may want access to these at runtime.
The UEFI bootloader should provide support for mapping runtime services, and providing a pointer to the runtime services table via boot info.
BIOS boot would simply set this field to None, as there is no runtime services (or rather, there are interrupts)
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Research direction
Start by tracing the UEFI boot path and the boot-info structure that is passed to the kernel, then compare how the BIOS path represents unavailable services. Done means UEFI maps runtime services and exposes a pointer to the runtime services table through boot info, while BIOS supplies None.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- operating-systems
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100