UEFI is the successor to the BIOS. It provides an early boot environment for OS loaders, hypervisors and other low-level applications. While it started out as x86-specific, it has been adopted on other platforms, such as ARM.

This crate makes it easy to both:

• Write UEFI applications in Rust (for i686, x86_64, or aarch64)
• Call UEFI functions from an OS (usually built with a custom target)

The objective is to provide safe and performant wrappers for UEFI interfaces, and allow developers to write idiomatic Rust code.

Check out the UEFI application template for a quick start.

This project contains multiple sub-crates:

• uefi: defines the standard UEFI tables / interfaces. The objective is to stay unopinionated and safely wrap most interfaces.

• uefi-macros: procedural macros that are used to derive some traits in uefi.

• uefi-raw: raw types that closely match the definitions in the UEFI Specification. Safe wrappers for these types are provided by the uefi crate. The raw types are suitable for implementing UEFI firmware.

• uefi-services: provides a panic handler, and initializes the alloc / logger features.

• uefi-test-runner: a UEFI application that runs unit / integration tests.

The uefi-rs book contains a tutorial, how-tos, and overviews of some important UEFI concepts.

Reference documentation can be found on docs.rs:

• docs.rs/uefi
• docs.rs/uefi-macros
• docs.rs/uefi-services

For additional information, refer to the UEFI specification.

Use the cargo xtask command to build and test the crate.

Available commands:

• build: build all the UEFI packages
  • --release: build in release mode
  • --target {x86_64,ia32,aarch64}: choose target UEFI arch
• clippy: run clippy on all the packages
  • --target {x86_64,ia32,aarch64}: choose target UEFI arch
  • --warnings-as-errors: treat warnings as errors
• doc: build the docs for the UEFI packages
  • --open: open the docs in a browser
  • --warnings-as-errors: treat warnings as errors
• run: build uefi-test-runner and run it in QEMU
  • --ci: disable some tests that don't work in the CI
  • --disable-kvm: disable hardware accelerated virtualization support in QEMU. Especially useful if you want to run the tests under WSL on Windows.
  • --example <NAME>: run an example instead of the main binary.
  • --headless: run QEMU without a GUI
  • --ovmf-code <PATH>: path of an OVMF code file
  • --ovmf-vars <PATH>: path of an OVMF vars file
  • --release: build in release mode
  • --target {x86_64,ia32,aarch64}: choose target UEFI arch
• test: run unit tests and doctests on the host

The uefi-test-runner directory contains a sample UEFI app which exercises most of the library's functionality.

Check out the testing project's README.md for prerequisites for running the tests.

See the uefi package's README.

We welcome issues and pull requests! For instructions on how to set up a development environment and how to add new protocols, check out CONTRIBUTING.md.

The code in this repository is licensed under the Mozilla Public License 2. This license allows you to use the crate in proprietary programs, but any modifications to the files must be open-sourced.

The full text of the license is available in the license file.