andreiw/uefitoolspkg

Various useful utilities for UEFI

UefiToolsPkg

This is a Tiano Core (edk2) package with various goodies. The goal was to make the UEFI environment much more useful to system hackers. It may be a reduced environment, but there's no need for it to remain a crippled one. People make the analogy of UEFI being the 21st century equivalent of DOS, yet DOS was a vastly more useful environment than UEFI is today.

Hopefully, one day this will grow into a veritable distribution of software to be productive even without a "real OS" around.

• Useful utilities for developers and admins.
• Ported UNIX tools.
• Useful libraries for developers.
• Drivers for UEFI.
• Development tools for Windows/Linux.

Other tools around the Web.

Building

Assuming you have EDK2 (http://www.tianocore.org/edk2/) all configured and capable of producing builds for your target architecture:

$ git clone --recursive https://github.com/andreiw/UefiToolsPkg.git
$ build -p UefiToolsPkg/UefiToolsPkg.dsc

To override architecture and/or toolchain:

$ build -p UefiToolsPkg/UefiToolsPkg.dsc -a PPC64
$ build -p UefiToolsPkg/UefiToolsPkg.dsc -a X64 -t GCC49

Utilities

Name	Description	Notes
FdtDump	dump system device tree to storage	README.md
AcpiDump	dump system ACPI tables to storage	README.md
AcpiLoader	load system ACPI tables from storage	README.md
ShellPlatVars	set UEFI Shell variables based on platform configuration	README.md
ShellErrVars	set UEFI Shell variables to look up EFI RETURN_STATUS values	README.md
ShellMapVar	set %mapvar% with own current device mapping	README.md
MemResv	create new memory map entries	README.md
RangeIsMapped	validates ranges in the memory map	README.md
GopTool	check and manipulate EFI_GRAPHICS_OUTPUT_PROTOCOL instances	README.md
SetCon	check and manipulate console device variables	README.md
PciRom	list and save PCI ROM images	README.md
tinycc	port of TinyCC to UEFI	README.md

UNIX Tools

Name	Description	Notes
cat	Port of NetBSD cat	README.md
dd	Port of NetBSD dd	README.md
grep	Port of NetBSD grep	README.md
ls	Port of NetBSD directory lister	README.md
stat	Port of NetBSD stat	README.md

Libraries

Name	Description	Notes
UtilsLib	consumed by the above utilities	None
SoftFloatLib	port of SoftFloat-3d to UEFI	README.md
FTSLib	port of FTS(3) routines, file hierarchy traversal	README.md
RegexLib	port of REGEX(3) IEEE Std 1003.2-1992 regular expression routines	README.md
StdExtLib	fixes and functionality on top of StdLib	README.md

Drivers

What	Description	Platform	Notes
QemuVideoDxe	GOP driver for QEMU	OVMF, ArmVirtPkg	README.md

Development Tools

Name	Description	Notes
gdb_uefi.py	load TianoCore symbols in gdb	README.md

Contact Info

Andrei Warkentin ([email protected]).

uefitoolspkg's Issues

How to build?

Totally new to edk and this. Please help me to do my very first build on Ubuntu.

I untar edk2-edk2-stable202108-rc1.tar on my ubuntu and put UefiToolsPkg into edk2-edk2-stable202108-rc1.

My steps to build:

cd edk2-edk2-stable202108-rc1
source edksetup.sh
build -p UefiToolsPkg/trunk/UefiToolsPkg.dsc
edk2-edk2-stable202108-rc1/UefiToolsPkg/trunk/UefiToolsPkg.dsc(44): error 000E: File/directory not found in workspace
edk2-edk2-stable202108-rc1/UefiToolsPkg/trunk/StdLib/StdLib.inc
edk2-edk2-stable202108-rc1/StdLib/StdLib.inc

I searched edk2-edk2-stable202108-rc1 and only found these:
./UefiToolsPkg/trunk/Library/StdLibDevConsole
./UefiToolsPkg/trunk/Library/StdLibUefi
./UefiToolsPkg/trunk/Library/StdLibInteractiveIO

In README.md under StdLibDevConsole:
This is a fixed-up version of edk2's StdLib/LibC/Uefi/Devices/Console.

Do I need do some changes in UefiToolsPkg.dsc?

Thank you
Harry

UEFI tool to read/write/probe serial flash

Hi,
Is there any tool/utility available to read/write/probe serial flash from UEFI ?
Something like 'sf', thats available on uboot.

If there is, kindly guide me to it.

pls help offer builded efi file

pls help offer builded efi file

Another UEFI Tools

FYI, https://github.com/bluebat/gnu-efi-applets

Build fail

I have an Ubuntu machine on which I have setup an edk2 environment following the instructions on the tianocore GitHub page. I have confirmed that I can build the MdeModulePkg and that the resulting HelloWorld.efi works in my efi shell.

I cloned this repo into my edk2 base directory and made the following changes to Conf/target.txt:

ACTIVE_PLATFORM = UefiToolsPkg/UefiToolsPkg.dsc
TARGET_ARCH = X64
TOOL_CHAIN_TAG = GCC5
MAX_CONCURRENT_THREAD_NUMBER = 9

Issuing the build command gives the following:

Build start time: 14:50:38, Dec.13 2022

WORKSPACE        = /home/russell/src/edk2
EDK_TOOLS_PATH   = /home/russell/src/edk2/BaseTools
CONF_PATH        = /home/russell/src/edk2/Conf
PYTHON_COMMAND   = /usr/bin/python3


build.py...
/home/russell/src/edk2/UefiToolsPkg/UefiToolsPkg.dsc(44): error 000E: File/directory not found in workspace
	/home/russell/src/edk2/UefiToolsPkg/StdLib/StdLib.inc
/home/russell/src/edk2/StdLib/StdLib.inc

- Failed -
Build end time: 14:50:38, Dec.13 2022
Build total time: 00:00:00

Build is correct the file /home/russell/src/edk2/UefiToolsPkg/StdLib/StdLib.inc doesn't exist. I've had a look through UefiToolsPkg.dsc and see references to over riding StdLib but I see anything blatantly wrong. However I am a complete novice at building efi packages with edk2.

Having grep in an efi shell means I can script the update procedure for certain LSI based RAID/HBA cards. Any help would be really appreciated.

Regards,
Russell