Confused about Tianocore EDK
Posted: Tue Feb 18, 2014 10:15 am
After several years of putting off developing a efi/uefi bootloader for my os, I have tried to stop my procrastination and get to work. Ill be honest, maybe it's a bad morning for me or my reading comprehension skills aren't up to par, but I spent quite awhile looking over the tianocore edk.
A friend of mine was telling me it will work on any uefi board but that does not sound entirely accurate, i thought it was somewhere along the lines of coreboot. I also read over the intel edk debug kit, and since my board has a com db9 header (which is how I debug my os) that I should be good to go.
Here is where I am confused, is tianocore it's own bootloader that then sets up it's own pre-boot uefi environment on top of the already existing board firmware? Or am I completely missing the point.
If someone could point me in the direction of where a complete beginner would get started that would be fantastic. Like I said I have all the documentation, I am just a little overwhelmed and lost in the sauce.
A friend of mine was telling me it will work on any uefi board but that does not sound entirely accurate, i thought it was somewhere along the lines of coreboot. I also read over the intel edk debug kit, and since my board has a com db9 header (which is how I debug my os) that I should be good to go.
Here is where I am confused, is tianocore it's own bootloader that then sets up it's own pre-boot uefi environment on top of the already existing board firmware? Or am I completely missing the point.
If someone could point me in the direction of where a complete beginner would get started that would be fantastic. Like I said I have all the documentation, I am just a little overwhelmed and lost in the sauce.