uefi-d: Booting to D

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On Tuesday, 9 February 2016 at 20:15:03 UTC, Jakub Szewczyk wrote:
> I have started developing a hobbyist OS, I decided I want it to 
> be written in D, but the only possibility to write code that 
> can be ran by the UEFI chips that replaced BIOS in modern 
> computers was to use either assembler or C. (For example: 
> http://wiki.osdev.org/UEFI or 
> http://wiki.osdev.org/UEFI_Bare_Bones) That's why I'm working 
> on creating a D binding for the UEFI specifications (official 
> SDK is at http://www.tianocore.org/), right now the project is 
> in the stage, where it can be used for real applications, but 
> only the most important headers have corresponding modules, I'm 
> gradually porting more and more parts of the SDK to D.
> I have included a sample, working, hello world application with 
> a build script that works on x86-64-bit linux in the project. I 
> don't have the time and resources to extensively test the 
> correctness of these bindings, so if anyone else is interested 
> in UEFI programming, I'm willing to cooperate :-).
>
> Github link: https://github.com/kubasz/uefi-d
>
> Code.dlang.org project: http://code.dlang.org/packages/uefi-d
>
> Proof of this working on real hardware: 
> https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubasz/uefi-d/ded021fe036eccdf2ae377bc75df057e76c90198/sample/photo.jpg
>
> Useful wiki with a good documentation of the API: 
> http://wiki.phoenix.com/wiki/index.php/Category:UEFI_2.0

Nice work!