An IRC Client in your motherboard

• mitnal

  6 524 5.2 C

  Twitter client for UEFI

Looking forward to ditching these bloated operating systems with all this cruft I I do not need for something smaller and simpler: UEFI. Not to mention faster startup. Easier "embedded" development.

Of course I am joking. Sort of.

As a minimalist I do not need a GUI or a mouse. It seems UEFI already has more than I need.

Here is the Twitter client mentioned:

https://github.com/arata-nvm/mitnal

• uefirc

  2 195 9.3 Rust

  An IRC client in your motherboard

Thanks very much!

The other commenter is correct that the work loop typically revolved around booting a QEMU instance which ships my UEFI application. The main run script will regenerate an EFI filesystem that contains a fresh build of UEFIRC, then pass it to QEMU.

However, the overhead here can get a bit cumbersome when trying to build a GUI. I set things up such that the app could target either bare-bones UEFI, or a hosted environment that runs on my Mac. By flipping a build flag, my GUI toolkit would either draw directly to the UEFI-provided framebuffer, or would hook into my Mac's windowing system and receive/push events to that. You can see some of the overhead of this 'dual-target' approach in the app's entry point: https://github.com/codyd51/uefirc/blob/main/src/main.rs.

Parsing IRC messages also really doesn't need any accoutrements, so I developed those with a unit test suite running directly on my Mac - you can see part of that here: https://github.com/codyd51/uefirc/blob/main/src/irc/response....

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