Rejeq / UefiTetris

A tetris game, that can be launched in UEFI

UefiTetris

Table of Contents

• About
• Building
• Launching
• Debugging
• Troubleshooting
• Related

About

A tetris game, that can be launched in UEFI.

Features:

• Scoring
• Levels
• Tetromino preview
• Tetromino hold
• Ghost tetromino
• Rotation system and wall kicks

Building

This project can be builded with severel efi providers:

• gnu-efi
• EDK2

Building some different depending of the provider
First make some common stuff:

git clone https://github.com/Rejeq/UefiTetris
cd UefiTetris
mkdir build
cd build

Gnu-efi

...
cmake -DTETRIS_ARCH="x86_64" -DTETRIS_EFI_PROVIDER="gnu-efi" ..
cmake --build . -j 2

The gnu-efi library will be automatically loaded, but if you have problems, you can install it manually by setting TETRIS_FETCHING=OFF and providing GNU_EFI_DIR path to the efi directory

EDK2

If you use clang, you must also install the llvmGold extension

...
cmake -DTETRIS_ARCH="x86_64" -DTETRIS_EFI_PROVIDER="edk" -DTETRIS_EDK_REPO="<path to edk repo" ..
cd edk
source edksetup.sh BaseTools
cd ..
build

If the build process was successful, the binaries should be in: ./<build_mode><compiler>/<arch>/TetrisApp.efi

Launching

Qemu

First of all, we need to get OVMF
This can be obtained by several methods:

1. Using the package manager
   In Ubuntu run: sudo apt ovmf
   In other distros must be similar
2. Manual building
   If you have troubles, you can take the commands from nightly build github repository
3. Download nightly build

Next we need to create FAT image (mtools required).
For gnu-efi it will be created automatically, so you can skip this point

bash scripts/MakeFat.sh [Efi program]
bash scripts/RunQemu.sh [FAT image] --arch="x86_64" --ovmf=[path to ovmf]

Or if you unable to create FAT image you can use -hda flag

mkdir -p boot/EFI/BOOT
cp [Efi program] boot/EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.EFI
bash scripts/RunQemu.sh --arch=... --ovmf=... --no-image -- -hda fat:rw:boot

VirtualBox

Create .iso file by running: (xorriso required)

bash ../scripts/MakeIso.sh [FAT image]

Create machine as usual, and set Enable EFI flag

Not forget to set correct architecture
Also you can set minimum ram and disk space

Debugging

Go to build dir and reconfigure cmake:

cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_Type=Debug -DTETRIS_LOGGING=ON ..

Rebuild project
Run tetris, and you will see in the console "ImageBase: 0x--------"
Meomrize the hex value and start gdb session:

gdb --command=../scripts/GdbSetupEfi.py'
(gdb) SetupEfi [Efi program] [Efi debug program] [ImageBase value]
(gdb) b efi_main
(gdb) target remote :1234

In other terminal you need to run qemu

bash ../scripts/RunQemu.sh [FAT image] --debug=true

Troubleshooting

Black screen in VirtualBox

If you only see a black screen, you may have forgotten to set the Efi flag during the machine creation phase.

Always returning to the shell

Try executing the program manually with:

$ fs0:  # go to the boot filesystem
$ EFI\BOOT\BOOTX64.efi

If nothing appears after that and you just go back to the shell, it could be due to the different architecture of the machine and the program

Related

• Tetris guideline
• tetrEFIs - A similar project with graphics output
• About UEFI
• Efi application debugging