Hello everyone. All my work on UEFI Rust std has been moved to tianocore/rust. This should help with allowing more contribution from both Tianocore and Rust’s sides. This post is just a sort of introduction to the new repository and how to get started.

Documentation

The documentation of the std implementation for UEFI can be found at src/doc/rustc/src/platform-support/unknown-uefi.md. This can be built by using x.py:

./x.py doc src/doc/rustc/ --open

It outlines the requirements and the limitations of the current std for UEFI. It also contains a few examples to get users started.

Development Workflow

The tianocore/rust repository accepts PRs. I will also accept patches in the edk2 mailing list (my email: [email protected]).

Running Tests locally

Running Tests for UEFI is done using remote-test-server and remote-test-client as outlined in my previous post. The only thing I would like to change from that guide is the command to run tests:

RUST_TEST_THREADS=1 TEST_DEVICE_ADDR="localhost:12345" ./x.py test src/test/ui/{FILE or Directory} --target x86_64-unknown-uefi --stage 1

Running tests in single-threaded, even on the host side, fixes a lot of tests that fail due to timeout.

Conclusion

This post was just to spread the word about this work so more people can experiment and provide their feedback about it.

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