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UEFI edk2 NetBSD support



I'm about to start to commit modifications to the UEFI edk2 sources in
order to allow to build and test it under NetBSD.

Why is it related to the kernel? Because UEFI is not limited to one
arch (so it's not linked to some port); because the edk can be
compiled and used on a not UEFI hardware in order to provide some
UEFI support and it could be an alternative to Uboot; because on
an only remotely accessible machine, a persistent runtime UEFI
network driver could allow to explore the machine and, if the kernel
supports it, could allow to remotely debug the kernel on a machine
where there is no other direct mean to know what is going on
particularly in the early stages of booting.

Am I stepping on somebody else's toes for the UEFI edk2? (I don't speak
about UEFI kernel support: I'm not working on that.)
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