Promethee: UEFI Bindings for JavaScript - Proof of Concept for Writing Bootloaders in JavaScript
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Summary
Promethee is a proof-of-concept project that provides UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) bindings for JavaScript, allowing developers to write bootloaders and low-level firmware code in JavaScript. The project enables JavaScript code to interact directly with UEFI services, with script.js serving as the entry point that gets loaded from the boot volume. The article provides basic setup instructions including fetching dependencies, building, and running in QEMU emulator, along with a simple example showing how to access graphics output protocol to fill the screen with red color.
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If you can do it with UEFI services, you can do it in JavaScript.
Your entrypoint is script.js. The run target copies it to the UEFI FAT volume as \script.js.
var gop = efi.SystemTable.BootServices.LocateProtocol(efi.guid.GraphicsOutput);
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