Reading Files in the EFI System Partition | UEFI Dev (in C)

Опубликовано: 05 Октябрь 2024
на канале: Queso Fuego

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Adding and using file protocols to read the EFI System Partition from within a booted EFI application.

Notes:
An EFI "image" might only be the application itself, the metadata is only for and about the booted file/application. So I misspoke on that.

Links:
https://uefi.org/specifications (uefi & other specifications)

UEFI Programming playlist:
   • UEFI Programming in C

Git Repo:
https://github.com/queso-fuego/uefi-dev

Repo state at the start of this video:
git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/queso-fuego/uefi-dev
cd uefi-dev
git checkout 16e96d5fac523052c4918b47fa0bbbcaeff32fce

Repo state at the end of this video:
git checkout e90a7023a9b5fc93ba2335aa7bdc6883112921a8

Next video:
Probably Block IO and maybe Disk IO protocols to see what block devices are available and to read files from a basic data partition.

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Outline:
0:00:00 Intro, get loaded image protocol from spec
0:11:00 Add menu option to read ESP files, add file protocols from spec
0:33:33 Get root directory pointer
0:38:36 Add cleanup label, read root directory entries
0:51:24 Add input to navigate directories, add strncmp/strrchr/strcat functions
1:27:34 Add fixes for going up a directory
1:30:43 Allocate buffer for file
1:37:45 Read file into buffer
1:44:44 Print file contents
1:50:32 Potential things coming up & outro

Music credits:
Winter Night by Sakura Girl |   / sakuragirl_official
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