uefi-d: Booting to D
Satoshi via Digitalmars-d-announce
digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com
Wed Feb 10 04:41:46 PST 2016
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 :-).
>
> [...]
Nice! I think I'll use it in my OS.
BTW: Using D for OS development is a little tricky without GC. I
wish there should be implemented ARC as a replacement for GC in
situations where cannot be used GC, like OSdev or SWdev for low
level hardware.
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