Kevin Boone: Firststeps in bare-metal programming using UEFI – series index
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Kevin Boone: Firststeps in bare-metal programming using UEFI – series index was first seen on Lobsters · Hottest on Nov 6, 2026. Since then it has appeared in 42 checks on 2 different days. Its best position was #1 of 25, reached on Nov 7, 15:51 UTC. It dropped off the list after Nov 7, 15:51 UTC. The same link also trended on Hacker News, which raises its cross-platform score.
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> you’ll need the gnu-efi library and include files [...] There are more sophisticated EFI libraries, but this is an educational article, so simplest is best. gnu-efi is _not_ the simplest way to generate EFI executables, at least for x86-64 targets, and it's not the best by any stretch. gnu-efi works by linking to…
For Rust, uefi-rs makes this pretty pleasant: cargo build --target x86_64-unknown-uefi and no gnu-efi or objcopy step. If you're looking for a GUI framework that works on UEFI: Slint (which I work on) can do it. We have a demo here https://github.com/slint-ui/slint/tree/master/examples/uefi-demo built on top of uefi-rs
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