On 2/26/14 10:34 AM, Christoffer Dall wrote:
ARM VM System Specification
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See also the thread forked off to the EFI dev list, about using existing
EFI ByteCode (EBC) for this new purpose, especially the informative
reply from Andrew Fish of Apple.com:
http://sourceforge.net/p/edk2/mailman/message/32031943/
Today, EBC is created by Intel, and targets Intel's 3 platforms, but no
ARM platforms yet. Today existing EFI uses EBC "VM", existing
implementation exists with BSD license. EBC's goal was to let IHVs share
Option ROM style drivers, not have to ship multiple ones. Having ARM and
Intel use the same VM/bytecode would be even better for IHVs. I'm
unclear to your non-EFI use cases, so may not be useful outside EFI. IMO
the main issue with EBC is only commercial Intel and Microsoft compilers
support it, not GCC or CLang. IP clarify of this Intel creation would
also be an issue, but apparently UEFI Forum owns the spec.
There are too many lists CC'ed already, but if this becomes a valid
option, the linux-efi list on kernel.org needs to get invited. :-)
Thanks,
Lee
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