Develop UEFI with openSUSE

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Shows how to build and run UEFI firmware from EDK2 on a local VM so development avoids bare metal and slow SPI flashes: use QEMU + OVMF (installable package on openSUSE), build yields OVMF_CODE and OVMF_VARS files, copy VARS to update state instantly, and test Secure Boot flavors (Microsoft or openSUSE keys) in a VM. Debugging uses an emulated serial debug log and serial debug + GDB remote (qemu -s/-S, load symbols) to reproduce crashes and inspect state.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 8:27Bare Metal
3. 9:47Virtual Machine
4. 12:14Build the firmware
5. 16:05Setup a test environment (cont'd)
6. 17:55Print Debug Messages
7. 18:49Configure the Debug Level
8. 21:26Capture Debug Messages
9. 24:40Source Level Debugging (cont'd)
10. 28:00Summary

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