What says #hacker more then a customized boot logo that is offcentered?

#EDK2 #Taniocore #libvirt #VM #QEMU

#edk2 on @PINE64 #pinetab2

#edk2 on @PINE64 #pinetab2 ? 🤔

“To use LLVM to build BaseTools, first set the CLANG_BIN environment value, and add “CXX=llvm” to choose LLVM compiler set when using make command.”

🤦‍♀️ Ugh. The Makefile sees CXX=llvm and then sets BUILD_CC=clang and BUILD_CXX=clang++.

I’m working to update it so people just pass CC=clang CXX=clang++ as _I_ at least would expect it to work.

#edk2 #tianocore #compilers

This past week I’ve been learning how to use the EDK2 host-based unit testing framework.

It’s been _so_ useful: I’m working on adding a library to parse data from SPD EEPROMs on memory modules and create SMBIOS tables from it. Thanks to Thaiphoon Burner I now have a good set of test data and my unit tests have been finding several bugs.

I’ll definitely be using the framework more in future: there’s far too little unit testing in the embedded world.

#EDK2 #UEFI #UnitTesing #DDR4 #DDR5 #SMBIOS

Finally migrated my home router from #OpenWRT to now running #OpenBSD.

It's a Macchiatobin board on which I've compiled and flashed #EDK2 #UEFI firmware. It really does feel like an #x86 server.

#OpenWRT has been great. But it's very finicky to upgrade and maintain. I'm looking forward to #OpenBSD and less maintenance.

I've been maintaining the #EDK2 #UEFI firmware in #Buildroot. I will be packaging it in #pkgsrc as well to make it more available.

In the #ARM64 space, however, EDK2 has still got very limited use. It works well on #MachiatoBin, #Honeycomb and #Socionext #Synquacer hardware. But those are inaccessible and expensive platforms.

Great suggestions by @ddevault about how @PINE64 could change their community priorities for more impact. #ARM #Aarch64 #Pine64 #uboot #uefi #edk2 https://drewdevault.com/2022/01/18/Pine64s-weird-priorities.html