Alexander Graf
Alexander is a QEMU, KVM, openSUSE and U-Boot developer who likes to work across various CPU architectures.
He started to work for SUSE about 11 years ago and since then has
progressed through various subsystems.
He initially wrote the SVM emulation bits in QEMU, added nested virtualization support to KVM on AMD CPUs, wrote and maintained a good chunk of the KVM support for PowerPC for a few years, maintained the QEMU PowerPC parts for about as long, initiated and still participates on ARM support in openSUSE and recently dove into U-Boot land where he now maintains the UEFI execution support.
UEFI applications in U-Boot
During the last 2 years, U-Boot has grown support to execute UEFI applications such as grub or various BSD loaders.
This presentation will show you the progress of what is already working. It will show how far we're away from passing the official UEFI test suite and give you reasons why supporting UEFI binaries in embedded environments is useful.