[REQUEST] UEFI Shell

[kaysond]

Some UEFI motherboards don't come with a shell so it would be nice to have one accessible through netboot. Maybe in the UEFI utils menu?

It would be as simple as adding the menu option and the efi binary. You could use the one from the tianocore project, which is what I did: https://github.com/tianocore/edk2

[antonym]

Do you have any example references that work and that I can give a try? I think this is a great idea.

[kaysond]

Do you have any example references that work and that I can give a try? I think this is a great idea.

Sure. Specifically, I downloaded https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/releases/download/edk2-stable202002/ShellBinPkg.zip unzipped the efi file, and put it in my local assets folder. Then I added a menu entry that jumps to a label where I do

:uefi
imgfree
chain ${live_endpoint}/Shell.efi
goto my_exit

[Firminator]

@kaysond: Can you test if the UEFI shell binary you linked there has the dp command (for evaluating UEFi Boot performance). Like you said most BIOS either don't have an UEFI shell enabled (to reduce attack surface), or the few ones I tried that had it don't have the dp command.