GSoC22: Final Blog Post

Hello everyone. This is probably the final blog post I write before Google Summer of Code 2022 ends (hopefully not the final uefi one). In this post, I will summarize my GSoC22 work to make it more accessible to everyone.

PRs

Just a list of all PRs I opened as a part of GSoC22. While other people created some additional PRs to fix problems I found during my work; I do not include them since I wasn’t the one who found the solution for those.

r-efi

1. Getting r-efi ready for use in Rust std: 4 commits
2. Add TCP6 Protocol: 1 commit
3. Add EFI_RNG_PROTOCOL: 1 commit
4. Add EFI_TIMESTAMP_PROTOCOL: 1 commit
5. Derive Default for Time: 1 commit
6. Add TCP4 and IP4 protocols: 1 commit
7. Fix MODE_CREATE value: 1 commit
8. Make NotifyFunction Optional: 1 commit
9. Add ICMP Error Definitions: 1 commit
10. Add EFI_DEVICE_PATH_FROM_TEXT_PROTOCOL and EFI_DEVICE_PATH_TO_TEXT_PROTOCOL: 2 commits
11. Make RNG protocol members public: 1 commit
12. Fix timestamp properties: 1 commit
13. Implement Default for tcp4::ConfigData: 1 commit
14. Add EFI_SHELL_PROTOCOL: 1 commit. Still Open.
15. Add UDP Protocols: 2 commit. Still Open.

compiler-builtins

1. Enable mem for UEFI: 1 commit
2. Use all of src/math for UEFI: 1 commit

rust

• Add Rust std support for x86_64-unknown-uefi: 76 commits. Still Open.

Blog Posts

1. Google Summer of Code 2022
2. Use Restricted std in UEFI
3. Using Rust main from a custom entry point
4. Writing an Allocator for UEFI
5. Using Rust main from a custom entry point (Part 2)
6. GSoC 2022: Progress Report 1
7. Implementing Stdio for UEFI
8. GSoC 2022: Progress Report 2
9. UEFI Rust std has a new home
10. Writing UEFI Protocol in Rust

Conclusion

I will continue working on getting Rust std PR merged since it is still unmerged. I also have some more UEFI Rust Projects lined up, and I think I will keep working on them for the foreseeable future. Feel free to check out and experiment with using Rust for UEFI (with or without std).