Bare-metal programming with UEFI guide
The gist
Developer Kevin Boone published a five-part guide to bare-metal programming with UEFI for Linux developers.
It drew 129 Hacker News points, with commenters split on its gnu-efi recommendation.
How it unfolded
- Nov 6, 2026The series index page links five parts: Compiling and Linking, The EFI system partition, Making a DVD or USB flash image, A pragmatic digression, and Handling files using the Simple File Protocol.
- Nov 6, 2026The series is posted to Hacker News by LaSombra, reaching 129 points and 16 comments, and to Lobsters under the osdev tag.
- Nov 6, 2026On daily.dev the post shows 29 comments, with a community take of 35% positive, 40% mixed and 25% skeptical.
Key terms
- bare-metal
- Software that runs directly on hardware without an operating system underneath it.
- UEFI
- A specification for the firmware that runs first when a computer is powered on, before the operating system.
- EFI system partition
- A disk partition from which UEFI firmware loads files to start operating systems and utilities.
Source: Wikipedia