-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 05/08/12 13:35, Eric McCorkle wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I'm going to be working on EFI boot support on the amd64/i386 > platforms as a GSoC project. The idea is to allow booting from > EFI (as opposed to legacy BIOS) on these platforms, so that FreeBSD > can continue to support a wide range of hardware as EFI begins to > replace BIOS. ...
Just to bring this up, when was the last time anyone actually built the i386 EFI loader? There might be a bit of work to be done to bring it back into a buildable state. There most certainly *is* some work needed to be able to build on amd64. I spent last night poking around, and identified a few things, but I probably shouldn't go any farther until the 21st (or at least until I have a repository) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (FreeBSD) iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJPtSADAAoJENSCzbQ+koZ7ydYP/3g6pxpVfRxofDTtLH3MmElW TPMKuTJD4kZqbEjds0u7iXg2uweqUGajMQvOfHi6KXvmKriswrmortrLgMgJCI8P 5HoiS0WDrwRvdL38y5DpzpKZ1rc7RjWS0pEKpPYx3DQh0bps0sb1iAcI8gdPliNL /qRmeLNfiTcaYTOILgPcbWlLnIFYMmg5hmz7zjlIdZYWeBtVdKfrtw6hLCzJqoyz QfL4mzOrBNuXx4jw1yLk3qU7hxsrMkzN3Jm9HOJCb9D/4mDHvF3jmv/o0Jx9hacx Yt9gsYSd/Ot4hOQmB2d9KjOrZMrK5s+JhvknC1sMXz4UD7b6L/AItEpm0OiX1Ls6 2L1Fxob8V0VDZd4JJuZDFWAhqQ6dh9O5mQHrHxTCjEhYIDNPy367L9TdqLtggWN0 EMjVJqfg0XxLRP7vLopax/H6zpd0p8vXUGSxLiKXe4IHWIggPFgaWehslSzgTIu6 2xaETVkaBxt2JXo8ArAyfsvyW6JcZqYp2R2JAUXTNa/PX2Cn9iPFvnsqF7Ir3M5T /cabcrc69fARbRGCtL/vEY0ZHZ33b6K+ACJEmGuamZbDB0Xxe3dgRt+hSWFwjKfq 8+WP7xJ4dfkjICZ/+HXmO9n58myNd2hoBAWQwdG230p55YL2iuqGc2apqnZCsb5o KJVEWBn9VWYBxB/k7yoq =YxYV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
