On 04/03/12 13:22, Doug Ambrisko wrote: > EFI is a good task. For generic PC's we need an X64 format. The current > version in FreeBSD is IA32 format. The X64 can boot i386/amd64. > Qemu can be used to test both IA32 and X64 formats. I added some > notes about this on the wiki at: > > http://wiki.freebsd.org/IdeasPage#EFI_support_for_FreeBSD.2BAC8-i386_and_FreeBSD.2BAC8-amd64_.28GSoC.29 > > Qemu is nice since it can runs an UEFI BIOS via the OVMF project > and emulate a DOS file system by pointing qemu to a directory. So > then it is easy to build something, toss it into a directory, start > qemu and test. > > Thanks, > > Doug A.
I'm drafting an application right now. I emailed the listed contacts (Rui Paulo and Andrey Elsukov) a moment ago. I've done background research on this already, as part of getting FreeBSD to work on Mac hardware. QEMU caught my attention as a testbed. Also, I found out Apple EFI implementations are non-standard. They specifically look for an HFS+ partition and load a specific file. The workaround is pretty simple, of course: just wrap the boot loader in an HFS+ image and write it to a partition reserved for that purpose. Anyway, if I'm going to propose this, I need to list possible mentors. Skill-wise, I'm well equipped to take it on. I anticipate needing someone who's a committer, preferably with good knowledge of the kernel sources. -- Eric McCorkle Computer Science Ph.D Student e...@shadowsun.net
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