UEFI NVMe-oF Boot Implementation

Introduction

This UEFI Nvme-oF Boot Implementation enables a Boot-from-SAN prototype that produces and consumes ACPI XSDT NBFT descriptors that are conformant to the NVM Express Boot Specification 1.0 and it’s interface with the NVMe-oF messaging type to UEFI System Specification 2.10.

Further implementation details relative to the UEFI NvmeOfDxe driver can be found in the POC Readme.

Known Open Issues and Errata

• IPv6 still has general config and interop issues
• Hii Currently Missing; currently configuration is accomplished using NetworkPkg/Applications/NvmeOfCli.efi which may use a config file via efi-shell
• Sporadically, issues in the ExitBootServices code path have been observed

Points of Contact

• Doug Farley \Douglas_Farley@dell.com\
• Richelle Ahlvers \richelle.ahlvers@intel.com\

Contributors

Current and past key contributors:

• Naoyuki Mori \naoyuki.mori@intel.com\
• Amit Jain \amit_jain9@dell.com\
• Hrishikesh Gokhale \Hrishikesh_Gokhale@dell.com\
• Maciej Rabęda \maciej.rabeda@intel.com\
• Swamy Kadaba \Swamy_Kadaba@Dell.com\
• Murali Manohar Shanm \Murali_Manohar_Shanm@Dell.com\
• Doug Farley \Douglas_Farley@dell.com\
• Wei G Liu \Wei_G_Liu@Dell.com\
• Martin Wilck \mwilck@suse.com\
• Lenny Szubowicz \lszubowi@redhat.com\
• Peter Liu \Peter_Liu@Dell.com\
• Tony Rodriguez