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Various improvements for the Shell editor
- Difficulty: Medium
- Language: C
- Mentor: @jljusten
- Suggested by: @jljusten, @ErikBjorge, @jcarsey
- Status: Available in main edk2 tree
Develop a USB driver for a common USB-to-serial adapter.
- Difficulty: Medium
- Language: C
- Mentor: @ErikBjorge
- Suggested by: @jljusten
- Status: Implemented as a GSoC2012 project by @ashedesimone.
- Available at edk2-platforms/Drivers/OptionRomPkg/Bus/Usb/FtdiUsbSerialDxe
Add Xen specific support in OVMF to improve boot & runtime performance. http://www.xen.org/
- Difficulty: Medium/Hard
- Language: C
- Mentor:
- Suggested by: andreiwarkentin, Bei Guan
- Status: Implemented via https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1689
Port EmulatorPkg to Microsoft Windows (32/64 bit), as a replacement for NT32.
- Difficulty: Medium
- Language: C
- Mentor:
- Suggested by: @ajfish
Microsoft Visual Studio will be released March 7, 2017. Add VS2017 build support to EDK II.
Intel Firmware Engine adds UserExtensions in the SDK to describe connections between modules and module parameters (as "Patchable In Binary" PCDs). This enables binary distribution of configurable firmware components. Porting these extensions to a branch of OVMF would allow development and testing of these concepts on a virtual platform.
- Status: This application has EOL'd as of Aug 2019
- Languages: C, Python
- Mentor: @jcarsey
Get Xen to boot UEFI with OVMF.
- Difficulty: Hard (depending on tasks taken on)
- Language: C
- Mentor: andreiwarkentin, @jljusten
- Suggested by: andreiwarkentin
- Status: Available in main edk2 tree
Enable multiprocessor support for IA32 & X64 within UefiCpuPkg/CpuDxe. (Implement MdePkg/Include/Protocol/MpService.h)
- Difficulty: Medium
- Language: Assembly, C
- Mentor:
- Suggested by: @jljusten
- Status: Available in EDK II tree
Enable Link-time Code Optimization on Linux for either GCC or LLVM/CLANG. http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/LinkTimeOptimization
This feature hopefully would significantly reduce code generation size for Linux based builds.