edk2-staging

This article is a nice addition to the community since rarely is a complete rewrite of a firmware corpus possible. Speaking of Rust and host or boot firmware, the recently published https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/surface-it-pro-blog/s... provides a nice experience report. Other work on moving Rust into EDKII for UEFI style firmware https://github.com/tianocore/edk2-staging/tree/edkii-rust is described in https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/Enabling%20RU... and https://cfp.osfc.io/media/osfc2020/submissions/SLFJTN/resour.... There's also guidance on Rust for firmware in a book chapter https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4842-6106-4_....

> someone would have to pay a team of engineers to rewrite everything A partial effort has already been made a while back: https://github.com/tianocore/edk2-staging/tree/edkii-rust However, this uses uefi-rs, which is incompatible with TianoCore's BSD+Patent licensing, and therefore cannot be used as reference material, as the wiki page states: https://github.com/tianocore/tianocore.github.io/wiki/Tasks-... More recent efforts have also been mentioned in the mailing list: https://edk2.groups.io/g/devel/search?p=recentpostdate%2Fsti... Rust also has a basic standard library implementation now: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/105861